Re: Netscape and Gnome

[Nils Jeppe <nils jeppe de>]

Hi,

On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Krieger, Frank wrote:

> 1.	Netscape takes four minutes to launch....no lie, four minutes.

Really four minutes? As in, you actually took the time?

> 2.	When I attempt to download a large file, like WordPerfect,
> Netscape runs out of memory....(And I've already allocated more under
> the control panel)

How big are your swap partition(s)? What other software is loaded at the
same time? And what does "allocated more under the control panel" mean - I
didn't think you could assign any fixed amount of RAM to any specific
task/program? (OK maybe I am ust wrong here.)

> Now I'm running RH 5.2 on a Pentium 133 with 16 meg. , is the problem a
> configuration of the hardware or software? And is there a way to make
> Netscape stop shutting down and locking up the system?

Well... 16 MB is really very, very, very little. I ran a P60 with 64MB and
still sometimes the thing starts swapping. Netscape alone eats up about
15MB of RAM... sometimes more. Add to that another 10-15 MB of Ram that
X11 ate on my machine... So I would say that with 16 MB you can NOT expect
Linux to perform efficently.


I would really suggest you get at least another 16 MB... if you can, get a
total of 64 MB. Yes those old PS/2 Simms are expensive nowadays, so be
weary (The cheapest go for about US$35 per 16MB chip here in Germany).


Nils

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I hope my damage didn't take any brain.