🚀 go-pugleaf

Peter Childs (pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au) wrote:
: 
: Joanne Kilian (jo@eden.apana.org.au) wrote:
: 
: : >How long did you wait for it?  With my 486 and 8mg of ram Netscrape
: : >*regularly* (like, every ten pages or so) freezes the entire computer
: : >for several minutes while it does garbage collection ... it's bad
: : >enough to have reduced me to using Lynx 90% of the time.
: 
: : I get exactly the same thing happening.  The first time I thought
: : something had gone seriously wrong.  The problem is for most of the
: : time nothing appears to be happening - no mouse or control, no disc 
: : accesses/swaping - it's just that the cpu is so busy nothing else is 
: : happening.
: 
: : It really does seem to take quite some time, but nothing's wrong.
: 
:  If you running linux+XWindows+Netscape in 8mb of Ram on a 486 with
:  IDE drives I'm supprised I can't hear it swapping from here...
: 
:  Ram is cheap, so grab some more :)
: 
:  Peter
: 
: 
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I know,
     I went to ADE electronics at North Sydney and they were selling 16meg
for $295.

     I was upset as a fortnight ago I bought 8 meg for $230.

    Oh well.

Gra