On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about, Re: Netscape.:
> 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.
I'm sorry to keep butting in on this subject but, netscape as i have said
in my previous mails should start ok even with a heavy load on your system,
as i have said it takes 3 seconds to start nescape here. I consider my
machine to be a little more than avarage in use.
For clarity its a P333 with 64Mb and a SCSI disk and a Adaptec
AHA-2944 Ultra SCSI host adapter
When i say netscape takes 3 seconds i have the following in use.
1 SCC 8 bits card with 4 ports, that is in itself interrupt intensive,
1 BTTV TV card in use also a very heavy interrupt user.
2 ethernet cards.
One serial line to another server.
NFS mounts over ethernet.
KDE as my window manager.
kmail runs constanly as does kwintv for the TV card.
Normally 4 Xterms open + this and that.
I run tunneling IPIPEncapsulation over ethernet as well.
Still netscape 4.7 takes 3 seconds to load, of course i have a ethernet
cable modem, so any DNS lookups take Millisec's not seconds.
Note the DNS lookups, thats the biggest problem, that in itself is a reason
to start netscape with a "blank page".
This thread has been disscussed many times before, AFAIK, the reason for all
the mails was a slow DNS lookup causing netscape to hick.
Consult the archives at;
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/47/0
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Regards Richard
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