Yes, Virtual Memory is similar to swap space on a PC. In our office we usually keep VM turned off. This is because many of our Graphics programs run into problems with VM.
Our internet connection is 768K down. However, our email server is on our own network with a 10-Base T connection. Travis Crump wrote: > James Strickland wrote: > >> >> Whenever I am trying to download an e-mail with an attachment of 500Kb >> or larger it takes a large chunk of time to accomplish the task >> (sometimes not accomplishing it at all). I just tried to receive three >> emails with attachments that equaled 2.5MB total. The first email had >> an attachment of 900KB. After waiting 5 minutes (honestly) I checked >> my POP server and the 1st email was not even half finished being >> transferred to Mail/News. I cancelled the transfer and opened >> Microsoft Entourage. Entourage took a grand total of 45 seconds to >> download all three e-mails. If this was just a one-time occurance I >> would not be upset. However, this is a common occurance, and not just >> with my computer. To make matters worse, if I am able to successfully >> get the emails into Mail/News any action such as, saving or moving to >> another folder, takes almost as long as the initial download. In other >> email programs such as Entourage, once the email has been successfully >> downloaded it can be shuffled around just as quickly as if it was just >> a simple small text message. >> >> Is this an issue whos solution is being actively pursued or am I >> getting ready to hit yet another brick wall? >> >> In case you need it these are my system specs. >> >> Powermac G4 500MHz >> 512MB RAM >> Mac OS 9.22 >> 50MB RAM allocated to Mozilla >> Virtual Memory is turned off. >> > > I am not exactly sure what these stats mean, but if you mean there is a > hard limit of 50MB on the memory available to Mozilla than I am vaguely > surprised that Moz doesn't regularly crash... As for attachments, I > just sent myself a 4MB attachment, and moz retrieved it in less than 2 > seconds along with some other mail. The longest Moz has ever taken on > my mail is 10 minutes when I had >19,000 messages/80MB in my mailbox... > So 5 minutes for one message seems a bit long and may have to do with > your weird memory setup[though it may not be weird, I am not real > familiar with Mac OS][I have 384MB of RAM and 1GB of swap[which I assume > is similar to Virtual Memory] which Moz has unlimited access to]. You > also never mentioned the speed of your internet connection[I have > dialup, but Moz Mail doesn't use the internet] though I am assuming that > it is some form of broadband... >
