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Article #58759Re: Netscape kills linux
From: Joanne Kilian
Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 00:00
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In <4mk46j$9e4@news.mel.aone.net.au> gossamer@glasswings.com.au (Bek Oberin) writes: >In article <4mjhfl$obj@hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au>, Hao He wrote: >> freezed. No reactions at all from the keyboard and the mouse. >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. >Could it be that? Try getting a cup of tea then coming back to check >:) 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. Jo. -- _______________________ Jo Kilian jo@eden.apana.org.au
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,d3f180eaf161520d X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: jo@eden.apana.org.au (Joanne Kilian) Subject: Re: Netscape kills linux Date: 1996/05/09 Message-ID: <4mrrmi$ilc@eden.apana.org.au> X-Deja-AN: 153831705 references: <4mjhfl$obj@hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au> <4mk46j$9e4@news.mel.aone.net.au> organization: Australian Public Access Network Association newsgroups: aus.computers.linux