> On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Peter Christensen wrote: > > > Oh my. You're going to get a lot of responses telling you to > upgrade; but my guess is that you're problems stems from low RAM. On > 32 MB of RAM, you're going to start running deep into virtual memory > because of Mozilla's big footprint. I've heard good things about Galeon, > but on your computer, you may just want to stick with lynx-ssl. >
Try running 'vmstat N', where N is a reasonable interval like 5 seconds. "vmstat reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO, traps, and cpu activity." (man vmstat) If you constantly get lots of SIs and SOs (swap in/out) then your system is running low on memory. Here's an example from a system with 64 MB, starting mozilla: $ vmstat 5 procs memory swap io system cpu r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id 0 0 0 332 2388 2564 31256 0 0 3 2 273 277 1 1 98 0 0 0 328 2384 2564 31256 0 0 0 0 505 493 1 3 96 1 0 0 684 1292 2612 30304 0 71 498 33 440 479 22 4 74 1 0 0 684 1216 1428 29692 0 0 340 0 277 283 13 2 85 1 0 0 728 1324 1316 26724 0 9 65 2 246 267 73 3 25 1 0 0 908 1312 1340 24640 32 36 136 9 848 827 34 6 60 0 0 0 908 1752 1376 23672 0 0 28 0 341 338 13 2 85 1 0 0 908 1444 1312 23492 0 0 34 0 688 704 20 3 77 2 0 0 908 1280 1492 23492 0 0 0 16 319 339 2 1 97 -- GPG Keyid 0x0FCD0EE2 GPG Fingerprint C2FF 6147 0ADB 1674 4096 2339 370F CBDF 0FCD 0EE2 fortune - print a random, hopefully interesting, adage: In order to dial out, it is necessary to broaden one's dimension.