Actually I used to have slow netscape and it was due to a slow machine I
discovered that while I thought I had 128M of ram some of the sims were
actually dead and swap is really slow.
But are you running some kind of service on your machine?
X and netscape really take up lots of system resources so they should only
be used when necessary.
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Erik Jakobsen
wrote:
> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 08:59:47 +0200
> From: Erik Jakobsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Netscape.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > It is probably because it tries to look up something but also are you
> > using a scsi hard disk or IDE the latter are slower then the former.
> > On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Richard Adams wrote:
>
> I'm sure you are right. I use an IDE hard disk here. The system I have
> the problem
> with is running SuSE 6.4, and this system I use here is running SuSE
> 6.3, and with the last system I have no problems starting Nescape.
>
> And the 6.4 system is newly installed, and should then be free of bugs I
> think.
>
> > > Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:27:23 +0000
> > > From: Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: Erik Jakobsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: Netscape.
> > >
> > > On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Erik Jakobsen wrote about, Re: Netscape.:
> > > > Richard Adams wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Erik Jakobsen wrote about, Netscape.:
> > > > > > Hi.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > With SuSE 6.4 the netscape starts VERY slowly up.
> > > > >
> > > > > The speed in which netscape starts up depends on system resources, howmuch
> > > > > memory, other processes which grab CPU cycles. On my old 486/dx2 66 with 12
> > > > > meg it took something like 15 to 30 seconds to start, on my P333 with 64
> > > > > meg 3 seconds.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > It takes around a minute or so. I'm using an Intel P-II-350Mhz, 128MB
> > > > ram and
> > > > 10GB HDD.
> > > >
> > > > I do not think that the setup here is VERY slow.
> > > >
> > > > Should bee the same as with your P333 -right ??.
> > > >
> > > > And Its the first I do after having the KDE to run is to start Netscape.
> > > > Its ok on
> > > > another computer I have that runs SuSE linux 6.3. It also have 128MB
> > > > RAM, and is an
> > > > AMD-350MHZ and 10GB HDD. Think it last around 5 sec.'s to get Netscape
> > > > up run.
> > >
> > > Then quite possably there is something wrong in ./netscape/preferances.js
> > > or you have URL's or inet addresses defined in there that are being looked
> > > up upon starting netscape. Quite possably a simalar problem to the one
> > > being asked by, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers)
> > > maybe he could check that file as well.
> > >
> > > Start netscape up, edit preferances and tell it to start with a blank page,
> > > that might help.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards Richard
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
> > >
> > >
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> >
> > Noah
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
> Erik.
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