Re: Netscape kills linux

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From: Peter Childs
Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 00:00

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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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