LOL...no bubble burst here...if it looked like I said I opened multiple
instances of Netscape, I worded myself poorly. What I meant to say was I
opened every pig I could, in KDE (I usually use the much more memory
friendly blackbox) including, but not limited to - netscape, xmms (playing
mp3s, of course) GIMP (with big graphic opened in it), Knode, realplayer
(not playing anything), a whole mess of terminals, blah blah
blah...checking free -m every couple minutes. Never even touched swap :-)
I'm a happy camper with my Compaq right now...
peace,
Rog
http://www.slammingrooves.com
Registered Linux user #190719
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> Sorry to (partially) burst your bubble, but Netscape by default uses one and
> only one session. That mean that if you open Netscape and then open it again,
> it will detect the already existing netscape session and link into that. So
> in other words it is just like opening a new window. To really tax your
> memory, try turning on all the eye candy possible (full-screen wallpaper,
> animations, etc.) in your graphical environment, run a few Java and Flash
> apps in Konqueror, Mozilla and Netscape, open a large MS-Word Document in
> StarOffice, and attempt to manipulate a large graphic in The GIMP. With all
> those running, type "free -m" at a terminal and see how much memory you have
> left minus your cache.
>
> Now with that said, congratulations. 192MB is a good amount to have. You
> won't gain much by adding more.
>
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 09:09, Roger Sherman wrote:
> > To whomever it was that told me that RAM at crucial was as cheap as it is
> > now, thanks! And thanks again! I just installed another 128 SDRAM, for a
> > total of 192, and the difference is nothing short of astounding...
> >
> > Just to see what kind of a difference it made, I opened ten + programs,
> > starting with Netscape, and every other memory pig I could think
> > of...Program ten opened as fast as the first one...which, again. was
> > Nutscrape, but it opened as fast as a terminal window did when I had just
> > 64...
> >
> > BTW, sorry I forgot your name, but when I reinstalled a couple days ago,
> > the emails we'd traded didn't get backed up for some reason :-/
> >
> >
> > peace,
> >
> > Rog
> >
> > http://www.slammingrooves.com
> > Registered Linux user #190719
>
> --
> Sridhar Dhanapalan.
> Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change.
>
>
