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From: brian@anorak.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape 2.02 or 3.0 on FreeBSD
Date: 15 Nov 1996 18:07:30 -0000
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In article <328A54AF.35E6@execpc.com>,
Con Sultant <jkane@execpc.com> writes:
: The only "problem" I have is performance. I am am using 3.0 and it
: takes up to 2 minutes just to start up! Once it gets running, it seems
: OK, but that wait for it to fire off is boring. It dials out right
: away, so I know It did start. But, then I have to wait too long for the
: screen to show up on the screen. I usually don't have something else to
: do to fill in that time, or I would.
:
: Is this similiar to others? I have a 486/66 with 32 meg of memory, and
: two 24 meg swap spaces on two different spindles. I run a couple of
: xterms a clock and xload. That is all the machine has to do besides
: iij-ppp for dial out, and Cern Http for proxying to other machines that
: are not turned on during the test.y
Ha ! I've got a PPro200 w/ 80Mb of EDO and 400Mb swap (over four SCSI
drives through a 2940w) and a Hercules Graphite Terminator w/ the min
of 2Mb installed. Netscape takes about 20 seconds to start ! I must
analyse the traffic it's sending - I wouldn't be surprised if it was
telling netscape.com that I ran their program.
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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