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Re: Slow Mac problem

#196
From: Ed Wastrodowski
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 00:00
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Check  for disk fragmentation using your LaCie disk utility,and tell it 
to defragment...  well I have that one  with my external HD.. My internal
Hard disk
started giving the same problems, and  DiskFirst Aid told me that I had
Bad spots on the disk...so it's goin'  bad and eventually  will be all
useless...

To avoid using your hard disk so intensively:
Add a command to the user preferences which enables  RAMcaching within
netscape...then turn off disk caching...It stopped  banging so hard on my
disk drive  when I did that...I have a cablemodem..Use BBEdit and (Any files)..
go.. System Folder->Preferences-->Netscape Users-->(user)-->Netscape Preferences

add the following .. 

user_pref("browser.cache.memory_cache_size", 12288);

Be sure Netscape is not running,  It rewrites this file when You exit.
I lost  my  password to my mail  account  when I did this, though;  fortunatly
I had it written  down!

Ed

In article <marc-2108991902320001@vidmarc.demon.co.uk>,
marc@vidmarc.demon.co.uk (Marc Morris) wrote:

> I have a Performa 6200 with the maximum 64mb of RAM installed, running OS8.0. 
> 
> I'm suddenly having problems when viewing web pages from my hard disk
> using Netscape Navigator - It takes ages for even a simple page to load.
> It worked fine up until recently.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> -- 
> Mondo Erotico:
> The films of Jess Franco, Radley Metzger & Walerian Borowczyk
> http://www.vidmarc.demon.co.uk
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