How much ram do you have? What you're describing sounds a helluva lot like a
major swapspace usage. Try installing at least 64 MB of RAM. More than 64 on a
pentium I system is not such a good idea since only the first 64 MB gets cached,
and adding more ram will make your computer actually slower (or something like
that. Not quite correct, but that's the general idea). Of course, if with 64 MB
you still almost constantly hit the swap, then installing more than 64 MB is
perhaps a good idea; uncached ram is still much much faster than the fastest
harddrive.
But, on the other hand... Wouldn't it be beter to just upgrade to a higher
processor family? I mean, Java stuff is slow on pentium machines anyway. Of
course, that's your decision call.
On Feb 21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm running a fairly clean install of Mandrake 6.0 on my old p-166.
> If I open more than a few windows in Navigator 4.6 it can bring the
> whole system down with constant HD activity. It effectively ties up all
> resources-- I can't kill KDE or switch to another terminal.
> Last time this happened I did a hardware reset and trashed everything
> fairly thoroughly, hence the fairly clean install!
> This time I managed to telnet from my windows box, but the system was so
> tied up it took several minutes to connect and present me with a login
> prompt so I could reboot.
> This has happened before with Netscape 4.7 so I don't think an upgrade
> will help.
> It seems to happen most readily on pages using Java. Other than
> disabling Java is there any common fix?
> Thanks,
>
> Gene
> ...still wishing for Mozilla or Opera to be ready...
>
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