Re: Browsing on a WGS 7350

J. Blanton Thu, 25 Sep 2003 22:12:50 -0700

Buy as much RAM as you can afford. My 7300, which is VERY similar to your WGS, LOVES memory. I've got 496 megs and sometimes its not enough. Get a faster processor card. that made a huge difference. A bigger faster hard drive will certainly help things.

Jesse R Lucke wrote:

Perhaps I shall go into greater detail: I test pages in multiple browsers
for the website I manage. I'm often running BBEdit, Fetch, and a couple
browsers at the same time, and maybe fifth app for good measure. When I
switch from one app into another, there's often a significant delay (a few
to several seconds) before I can place the cursor and start doing things.
Sometimes it stops responding briefly when I've been in one app for a
while. I guess it *could* be the connection speed; I'm more inclined to
suspect that browsers are just resource hogs. Maybe they're fighting over
the modem? Shades of IRQ conflicts from the days of DOS in PC-dom?

IE is the worst offender. Whenever I go into webmail to write
mail--reading is fine--it immediately starts thrashing the HD and
keystrokes get delayed so much that typing is excruciating. Needless to
say, I don't use IE for webmail!

I've canned prefs and caches around the board from time to time. Seems to
make no difference. The browsers each get 15-20 MBs RAM space; seems to me
like enough. VM stays off; it never even gets the 1MB setting. I will
defrag the HD, though--it needs it anyway, I'm sure.

Thanks for the input,
Jesse

Since you are using different browsers and all are getting bogged down I
am
not sure suggesting giving more memory to a browser or clearing the
browser
caches and histories would be helpful. But I suggest it anyways! And it's
little memory you have really, try just running IE, give it plenty of
memory
in "get info" (select IE app, command+i) panel. Oh and defrag your hard
disk
and have some space spare in a block for VM and IE caches ... Try throwing
out browser prefs and caches. Are you really sure it is not connection is
bottled up?

Subject: Re: Browsing on a WGS 7350
From: "Jesse R Lucke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

I use 3 different browsers: ICab 2.9.1 for everything it works for, IE 5
for everything else, and Netscape 4.7 when I feel like it.

I frequently run ICab with one or the other. Hmm... Maybe that's it!

Jesse

Hello, all-

Anyone have suggestions for improving the browse-ability of my Mac? It
tends to bog down significantly when I'm online. I know it's not my
connection speed--it performs about the same whether I'm on a LAN or a
33.6 dial-up. Would a CPU upgrade help, or is something else @ work
here?

System: OS 8.6 3 GB 160 MB 180 MHz 604e


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