Hmm...disregard the following, I guess. I did a little detective work
and found it was an updatedb/find job that went *Wildly* out of control
(to the tune of 147mb worth of swap out of control). I'm going to go ask
about this on the slackware forum.
At the time of this writing, I'm 4mb into my swapfile (w/ X,mozilla and
the news client).
I was wrong, sorry. :~(
-Random, wiping the copious amounts of egg off of my face.
PS what is error 804b0001, and should I be alarmed if I see it pop up
regularly?
Random Liegh wrote:
> Ashant wrote:
>
>> Jay Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> * wrote:
>>>
>>
>> <snipped a lot of well-deserved praise for mozilla>
>
>
> And it is truly well-deserved, though admittedly I have been gentle on
> it (haven't gone to any java-oriented sites 'cos I dont understand how
> to setup java for mozilla...will make another post about that.)
>
>>
>>> Maybe you should try using Mozilla to read/reply these groups ... :-D
>>>
>>
>> Even I had tried doing that for some time ... but the news component
>> is too buggy right now, especially the offline features. Its easy to
>> read messages online, but I am in a position to not be able to do that
>> all the time. So I am back to my old news client for the time being.
>
>
> <rambling anectdote>
> Ok, I felt a little chastised after reading the 'try using the
> newsreader' comment. So I thought "ok, hey, I should give this a shot".
> Esp as I ripped out SuSE 6.2 and replaced it w/ Slackware 7.1. I have
> NEVER gotten SLRN to work on SW. So, I have 4 swapfiles (a
> misconfiguration I intend to fix...but that's neither here nor there)
> but I don't have them automattically run at start up.
> So, I reboot. I start X (using fvwm95 as my wm). I fire up an X-term and
> run mozilla. Daym the groups are a slow.
> So, I log in as root on a virtual console and run 'free'. I forgot to
> set up my swapfiles. "D'oh!". I run "swapon /Swap*" log out, and then
> kill X and start over.
> I start X. I load mozilla again, and run the news client. It's *just as
> slow* as running it on my bare 64mb. So, I run free again.
> I'm 100mb into my swapfile(s). Just from running X,fvwm95,the mozilla
> browser and the newsclient.
> </rambling anectdote>
> So...is this typical? I can believe it is because of my experiences w/
> netscape 4.x. (I keep a HUGE amount of swap space -300mb- for the times
> when I have to use netscape to make a largeish post onto a web-board.)
> But if that's the case, then I need to stick to a newsreader that
> requires/requests less ram because I have less ram.
>
> So...I'm using the client for the moment, but it may not be the right
> one for me to use given my constraints.
>
>>
>> Hope mozilla gets better in those areas pretty soon.
>>
>> Ashant.
>>
>> PS: I am impresssed too! Thanks!!!
>
>
> I'm still impressed w/ the web browser...wich is what I mainly want to
> use in the first place! :-)
>
>>
>
> -Random, swappin' like a fool....
>
