For those interested. This was posted with no subject, inside another thread. I thought it was significant, so I'm re-posting it under it's own thread. This really does seem to work! My Netscape now starts in a couple of seconds, rather than lifetime it used to take.
I have not looked at the code very deeply, only to verify that what was removed "appears" to be the debugging code, so I'm forwarding this along with the caveat that it's an unknown mod, and the user should be cautious. (IE: Use at your own risk!). James Sparenberg wrote: > > All, > In the intrest of speed I've managed to speed up the start of > Netscape 6.2.1 on my 8.1 boxen. I was curious why it took so long to > start and why it started 4 copies (or seemed to) when I looked at ps > -ax I did a trace of the sequence it ran and found out that in the > run-mozilla.sh script the de-bugger seemed to my non programming mind > to still be on. So I commented out most of the debugger code and > voila! 6.2.1 now starts almost instantly. I've been running it this > way for about 3 weeks without a hitch so I thought I might send it to > all of you. If it helps great. Maybe someone who knows more than I > can tweak it even further. > > James > > Script attached. > -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/
run-mozilla.sh
Description: Bourne shell script
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