On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 03:54:44 UTC, Julien Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Paul Hartman wrote: > > W3's CSS home at http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ is EXTREMELY slow for me > > using Mozilla on OS/2. Initial rendering of the page takes about 15 > > seconds, and if I PageDn it takes about 5 seconds. (Keep in mind the > > seconds I'm talking about is seconds of 100% CPU usage, not loading > > off the network etc). Any scrolling of the page, moving the mouse over > > the "hot spots" etc makes it suck CPU. Is it "supposed" to be this > > slow in Mozilla, or is something wrong with my installation here? I'm > > on a P2 266 CPU, which ain't exactly state of the art, but in Opera > > 5.12 that page has no problems and is relatively fast (though it does > > _look_ much better in Mozilla), so I don't think the hardware is the > > limiting factor. > > You didn't say how much RAM you had in your system. Mozilla is very RAM > hungry. If you have anything less than 128 MB you probably need more RAM > (it's dirt cheap these days). One good way to tell if you need RAM is > that your system is paging. Check the size of your > \OS2\SYSTEM\SWAPPER.DAT. The high CPU usage could be explained by > running a slow PIO IDE controller. > RAM is definitely the key. Running 333 mhz with 256MB & it flies! eric...
