by R Kan » Mon, 24 Jun 1996 04:00:00
I have Slackware 3.0 installed from the Infomagic Developers Kit 96.
When I tried running Netscape it was really slow, it took around 20-30
seconds just to start up. My system is a P90 with 8Mb ram 540 HD and
16 Mb swap. I am now considering adding an extra 16Mb of ram, would
this addition make a big increase or is there anything else I could
do?
Thanks
by David Efflan » Thu, 27 Jun 1996 04:00:00
>Thanks
David Efflandt/Elgin, IL USA
by Joachim Pauli » Thu, 27 Jun 1996 04:00:00
It's definetly your RAM size which slows down netscape. A computerQuote:>I have Slackware 3.0 installed from the Infomagic Developers Kit 96.
>When I tried running Netscape it was really slow, it took around 20-30
>seconds just to start up. My system is a P90 with 8Mb ram 540 HD and
>16 Mb swap. I am now considering adding an extra 16Mb of ram, would
>this addition make a big increase or is there anything else I could
>do?
>Thanks
Even if your programs don't need all of your RAM, it is not wasted.
Linux uses RAM which is not occupied by user programs as buffer cache,
which speeds up disk operations.
I would recommend at least 32 MB as a sensible amount of RAM, In practice
this will give you more performance than higher clockspeed with less memory.
Ciao
--
Joachim Paulini | Institut fuer Theoretische Physik
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I've been scratching my head over this for months, reading docs, looking
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