Richard Adams wrote:
>
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Shane Deering wrote about, Real slow Netscape.:
> > I've heard about Netscape being a bit slow to load, but
> > sometimes it takes a number of minutes for Nescape to
> > Load here. It's like it's lost something and can't find it.
> > Sometimes it will (seem to)load quickly, but as soon I click on
> > Nescape somwhere it freezes, again for some minutes then does whatever
> > I clicked on. So far it has only done one or the other at a time
> > and once it gets past that, it doesn't do it again for that session.
> > I get the same with RH 6.2 and Caldera OpenLinux 2.3.
> >
> > Is this a common problem or have I got a problem with my system?
>
> In general this sounds more like a network related problem,
> 1) A possable dns problem.
Maybe, but any other internet software I use seems to find a dns OK and
once
running netscape run OK too. I've never had this problem with netscape
under
windows and I would have thought that they would behave in a similar
fashion
in that case as the set up is almost the same (part of a LAN that uses
another
computer to gain access to the internet). Though linux Netscape doesn't
seem
as good as the windows version to me, so maybe they behave differently.
> 2) Slow network.
Unlikely.
Lets say that it is one of the above. Then if anyone using netscape was
to
start it up without being connected to the internet then they should get
similar symptoms to what I get.
Anyone notice that before?
No point me trying it as I've already got the symptoms :-)
>
> The long startup time could also be network related if netscape automaticly
> opens a home page when started.
It does, but the network seems OK to me and all my other internet
software.
I've changed Nescafe to start up with Messenger, but the long delay is
still
there.
>
> Another reason for a long start time could very well be swapping of memory
> and machine speed. You did not say what type of machine or how much memory
> you have either RAM or swap.
I didn't because I wanted to know if it was a common problem.
>
> I have a P333 with 64M RAM and 75M swap, netscape takes about 3 seconds to
> load here and is by no way slow during page downloads.
Faster CPU, same RAM and more swap.
But I think there is a util here to monitor RAM/SWAP usage, so I'll have
that
running and see what happens. This could explain the symptom below
maybe???
>
> The above is not much to go on but you may find some hints here, i would
> also start checking the system logs and http logs for any clues.
I'll do another search of the logs. Never know.
A few things in there for me to think about Richard.
A bit more info. A little while ago I shut down and start netscape
again.
This time the Netscape window came up ( the page was blank though) and
when
I clicked on Communicator it froze up again. KDE also appeared to be
frozen
as none of the buttons on the panel worked and none of the panel icons
changed
on mouse over. Caps lock worked OK and I'd assume linux kernel was still
happy.
Could a dns problem with netscape cause KDE to grind to a halt?
When the problem is with Nescape taking a long time to appear in the
first place
then KDE and anything else running seem to work as per normal.
Shane..
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