I run 8.6 on my 7300/200 with IE 5. IE will crash for me too, because (I think) it just keeps sucking more memory until it wants more than system 8.6 can give it. My machine has 836 MB RAM, but all it will only allocate around 50 MB to the system, so I think it either crashes the whole computer, or else drops the program (IE) that is asking for more memory.
I heard there is a work around for the 8.6 system memory limit, but I don't know what it is. If anyone does, please share it, for life would be much easier if I could give the system around 100 MB to run on instead of 50.
I would ultimately like to fidentify everything I can throw out of the 8.6 system folder to trim it down as much as possible and get this system to work in less than 50Mb anyway.
Your 6100 has less resources available to it than my 7300 does, so your problem is probably more pronounced. It is possible a different browser might fix your problem too. I don't know why IE is so RAM hungry. I think it claims it, and then instead of using what it already has, it wants more.
I noted in my original post that I have also been trying to use Netscape Communicator 4.79, iCab 2.9.8, and Mozilla 1.0. They all crash frequently enough to be really troublesome. I can't quite tell which is the worst offender.
Chuck
Thanks for the input, Chuck.
Bruce
On 10/20/04 7:46 AM, "Bruce Godfrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have been struggling with system 8.6 on my 6100 for some time now. I finally decided to check with the 1st-powermacs list for help. I can't run any of my collection of web browsers for more than 15 or 20 minutes without getting the "XYZ has unexpectedly quit. You should save your work..." message. I also get frequent errors of type 1 and some type 2.
I have IE5.1.6, Communicator 4.79, Mozilla 1.0, and iCab 2.9.8. I did the Text Encoding Converter update to 1.5, as the iCab readme recommends. Other than that I am running on a freshly reformatted hard drive and a freshly installed copy of 8.6. IThe system is from an OEM 8.5 disk, and then the downloadable 8.6 update was run. This 6100 has a Sonnet 400MHz G3 and 256 Mb RAM installed. It has always run well on 8.1 or 7.6.1, but has been flaky since I have upgraded to OS 8.6.
One thing that might be significant - I have 9.1 istalled on a partition of an external hard drive. When I first installed 9.1 it tried to "take over" the machine and somehow made it difficult to select the 8.1 system folder on the internal hard drive as the startup disk. Maybe some of the problems I'm having aren't some sort of legacy from the 9.1 installation?
Any insight into what is going on would be greatly appreciated. This computer used to be a reliable workhorse. I seem to need OS 8.6 to be able to run some newer software, while still being able to run my older programs, many of which don't like 9.1. I'd love to get 8.6 to work correctly.
Bruce Kenmore, WA
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