Marc wrote:
>If you're just using main memory for your cache anyway (and not using the
>RAM disk for anything else), you might as well just turn the disk cache
>right off and use RAM directly. It'll probably be faster, and as a plus
>you'll reclaim the memory when you quit Netscape.
Indeed the wizards at a Netscape newsgroup I recently looked up recommend
setting the disk cache to zero and allocating more RAM to the browser
(min 16M for Communicator), further recommended is trashing the Netscape
History file once in a while.
>As with clearing the
>memory cache above,
>there's no user interface for this in the Mac version
>of Netscape
>There's actually a utility out there which does nothing but offer a user
>interface to make this modification for you: only on the Mac would such a
>thing happen (especially as shareware). This is not necessarily a
>compliment. ;)
David wrote:
>Try using NavCom Cache Control. It saves cache into ram. Speeds things up
>alot. You can look it up on VersionTracker.
NavCom 2.0 (PPC) is available at http://www.io.com/~jackb/ , there also
exists vs 1.3 for 68k Macs. I found it convenient, and after all it's a
three-dollar-shareware...
Following these recommendations has clearly increased Netscape's speed
and stability for me; I now look forward to finding out whether the
change of settings will also solve my problem of having to reboot after
connection failures (there was a short discussion concerning this in
another thread on this list - Re: reboot...)
Edgar
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