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- From: crs0794@inforamp.net (Geoffrey Welsh)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: To All Those Who Think They Know A Lot About Computer Stuff!!!
- Date: 8 Apr 1996 00:32:11 GMT
- Organization: InfoRamp Inc., Toronto, Ontario (416) 363-9100
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- References: <4jvhaa$8nd@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>
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- In article <4jvhaa$8nd@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>,
- umdejaeg@cc.umanitoba.ca wrote:
- >OK, here is the story. If you can solve this problem you will have been able
- to do what many have failed to explain. I have an IBM
- >compatible with 4 megs of RAM, and am running windows 3.1. I'm hooked up
- through the university of Manitoba (Canada) server.
- >I'm running mosiac as my browser (because I'm told I can't run netscape with
- my machine). My machine only has 25 mhz. I have a
- >28.8 Cheyenne Modem with error correction yada yada. The problem is
- this.......I load Mosaic and get my home page at the
- >university. As I'm clicking on the various sites the time it takes to load
- them gets longer and longer. The first few are very fast. After
- >about five or so they start getting longer. Eventually it gets so long that
- the machine can't load the site before the machine gives up.
-
- I've experienced this with Netscape, too; do you hear a lot of disk activity
- as the system slows down?
-
- So far, I've tracked the problems with the systems I use (a 386DX-40 at home
- and a 486DX-33 at work, both with 8 MB of RAM and Netscape 2.0 under Windows
- 3.1) to disk usage, due to a combination of the Windows swap file and
- Netscape's disk cache. I don't know what NCSA Mosaic's memory usage pattern
- is like, but I'm willing to bet that running under Windows on a 4MB machine,
- it doesn't take long to start using virtual memory, and that all that swapping
- to disk is hurting responsiveness by reducing the szie of the Windows swap
- file, making is a permanent swap file, enabling 32-bit access mode, and
- reducing the caches size(s), if your Mosaic has such settings. Of course,
- reducing the swap file size may also make your application fail entirely or
- stop at some point for lack of memory.
-
- >set up problem. I have already tried adjusting the cache in Mosaic to
- various degrees with no success. The problem is esp[ecially
-
- What's your swap file setting? Have you tried _reducing_, and not increasing,
- your Mosaic cache settings? Unfragmenting your hard drive?
-
- >annoying on chat lines when the time to refresh the page gets so long I get
- disconnected. If anyone has an answer to this problem I
- >will reward you hansomly. Write me at umdejaeg@cc.umanitoba.ca.
-
- Ooh, you've got me felling like a kid on Christmas eve!
-
- --
- Geoffrey Welsh, Developer, InSystems Technologies Inc.
- Temporary: crs0794@inforamp.net; At work: insystem@pathcom.com
- At home: geoff@zswamp.uucp or [xenitec.on.ca|m2xenix.psg.com]!zswamp!geoff
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