"Paul M. Foster" wrote:
>
> Theory 3:
>
> Memory, and lots of it. I can completely understand why someone with 256M
> would have no problems, since Netscape is a well-known memory hog. It
> would appear that no one built in graceful compensation for low memory
> situations in Netscape. I don't know, but I wonder if Netscape tries to
> keep some of its cached stuff in memory as well as on disk. My wife,
> running Win95, has similar problems and can solve them only by killing
> cache items or restarting Netscape. I've heard similar things on this
> list as well, under Linux.
>
I ran Netscape (4.0x) on my old 486/DX4-100, 32 MB RAM, ~54 MB swap,
VESA Local Bus, Elsa Winner 100 VL graphics (S3 Chipset, 1MB RAM)
without obvious stability trouble (apart from this mentioned memory
problem).
Though I have a Millenium II now, I realy do not trust it. Sometimes my
screen blackens for a fraction of a second and returns normal. With SuSE
5.3, my system crashed occasionally when restarting xdm/kdm (logout of
X). Though this blackening was there too, that crashing stopped
thankfully.
Juergen
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