"Jeffrey Race" wrote: >Sometimes IE just runs at 100% CPU time and all other processes halt. >It happens when I am downloading pages from a slow server. I'd like >to be able to do other work and am in no hurry for the pages, so I'd be >happy if I could configure IE to take max maybe 50% of the CPU time. >Then I could go on with my word-processing for example
What is your IE cache set to? It tends to default to a huge number, and after a while, IE slows down because it's spending tons of cycles managing the cache. In extreme cases, I've seen the cache get so huge that you can't use the Back button, because doing so always results in "not found" as IE fails to find the page in its (now-huge and probably damaged) cache. Easy test: clear the cache and see if it goes away. I set it to 5 or 10MB *max* on my machines, and it's fine. (Well, I did when I used IE; now that I use Firefox, I set that low, too.) ...phsiii _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
