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Skriven 2004-07-31 15:09:08 av Peter Knapper (3:772/1.10)
     Kommentar till text 41 av Paul Sanders (3:633/104)
Ärende: web browser
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Hi Paul,

 PS> Well, after about 12 months, I have put together an OS/2 system

Welcome home.......;-)

 PS> Previous system (for about 10 years :)  was a 486 dx4 100 with 16meg
 PS> running Warp Connect 3.0 (clean)

 PS> This time around I have a 433 celeron with 128meg running Merlin.
 PS> Using Filebar rather than the standard desktop.

 PS> Inital thoughts are that the warp 3 system was smoother, with a lot
 PS> less disk swapping (swap file set to 128meg)

 PS> I am looking for a (halve?) decent web browser, tried mozilla, all it
 PS> did was thrash the drive for 10 minutes before I pulled the pin !

There is something seriously wrong there. My current BBS machine is a Celeron
700 (couldn't buy a smaller CPU when I built it, a P200 would have done the job
fine), 64MB RAM, 10GB IDE HD, Warp 4, running BinkD, Maximus/2, Squish/2,
Apache/2, NameD. Swap file is set to 2Mb but is never used, I still have
10-16MB RAM free (Note: no Browser installed on this machine)

Try setting your swap file size to just 2MB, depending on the partition size
and % full it may be simply a swap file management issue. Then start things up
and see at what point the Swap flile starts growing. I am picking that after
the boot completes and BEFORE you start Mozilla, the swap file will still be
2MB and you will have heaps of real memory left. I use MEMSIZE (Hobbes
MEMSZ400.ZIP) to monitor system status.

You didnt say which version of Mozilla you tried.  On my normal machine (IE the
one I am using now), I use Mozilla 1.4, the later ones (1.5, 1.6, etc) require
GCC but I am yet to be convinced thats the way to go. Moz 1.4 takes about 24MB
just to start and after a week of working uses about 80-100MB, however I have
384MB on this machine (231MB free, 7+ days run time, Moz been runing all that
time as I type), so your info just doesn't seem quite right somehow...


 PS> Anything else around worth looking at (I have to admit, I do like
 PS> Firefox on the win2k system)

I haven't tried Firefox/2 yet as 1.4.2 seems fine to me, but I have it here
(yet to be installed). The OS/2 Firefox reports seem quite positive, however
the overall product (regardless of platform) seems to have a few questions
still. Maybe once its stabilised a bit more...

Cheers...............pk.


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