Re: Netscape and Gnome

[mark hoist nlcomm com]

You're probably swapping.  Gnome is nice, but at this point it is
an incredible memory hog... it drives me nuts on my machine with
90 megs of RAM; I can't imagine the pain of running it with 16 megs.

There is a Linux utility, "top" that will tell you what is happening
with your memory usage - in particular how much swap and real memory
are in use.  Try running this in an xterm while you start up these
programs and you'll get a feel for what's going on.

Note: the only worse memory hog than Gnome is Netscape - NS is
efficient at first but it has had a memory leak for years... it
keeps growing and growing...

For low memory systems I use QVWM or WindowMaker and avoid
netscape....

Mark


   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.


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