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From: Gert van der Plas <gert@inferno.phys.tue.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape 2.02 or 3.0 on FreeBSD
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 21:25:08 +0100
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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Brian Somers wrote:
> : 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 > : 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 > 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

8 seconds to start a 2nd netscape (not a child from the first). 
AMD133Mhz 486, 32Mb RAM, 100Mb swap, 1Gig Fireball. No problems.
Netscape 3.01 Gold.


Regards,

     Gert

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