Hi.
I'm not sure that memory is the problem: I've experienced similar disk thrashing
when opening too many (4 or 5) Netscape windows. I agree that it sounds like a
swap problem (I have a separate swap disk: sounds different). I'm running Mandrake
7.0
on a 233Mhz Pentium II, with 64Mb RAM, and 100Mb swap. Could be the Java
activity. It seems like this happens when there is a lot of dancing banner crap
going on...
On the other hand, maybe 64Mb is just too wimpy, too. Time to upgrade?
Already?
Mike
Rial Juan wrote:
> How much ram do you have? What you're describing sounds a helluva lot like a
> major swapspace usage. Try installing at least 64 MB of RAM. More than 64 on a
> pentium I system is not such a good idea since only the first 64 MB gets cached,
> and adding more ram will make your computer actually slower (or something like
> that. Not quite correct, but that's the general idea). Of course, if with 64 MB
> you still almost constantly hit the swap, then installing more than 64 MB is
> perhaps a good idea; uncached ram is still much much faster than the fastest
> harddrive.
>
> But, on the other hand... Wouldn't it be beter to just upgrade to a higher
> processor family? I mean, Java stuff is slow on pentium machines anyway. Of
> course, that's your decision call.
>
> On Feb 21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I'm running a fairly clean install of Mandrake 6.0 on my old p-166.
> > If I open more than a few windows in Navigator 4.6 it can bring the
> > whole system down with constant HD activity. It effectively ties up all
> > resources-- I can't kill KDE or switch to another terminal.
> > Last time this happened I did a hardware reset and trashed everything
> > fairly thoroughly, hence the fairly clean install!
> > This time I managed to telnet from my windows box, but the system was so
> > tied up it took several minutes to connect and present me with a login
> > prompt so I could reboot.
> > This has happened before with Netscape 4.7 so I don't think an upgrade
> > will help.
> > It seems to happen most readily on pages using Java. Other than
> > disabling Java is there any common fix?
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Gene
> > ...still wishing for Mozilla or Opera to be ready...
> >
>
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