Very Computer

Yes, it's your memory which simply isn't enough. 8 Mb is the bare minimum to
drive the X alone.

Buy more memory, adding your swap to around 20 Mb might also help a little.

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 | >
 | > Can anyone tell me why it would take up to 15 minutes for the web brousers
 | > to load? No matter which one I try, (netscape, Mosaic, Arena) all of them
 | > start the harddrive action, which runs for about 30 seconds then it stops
 | > and the computer just sits there doing nothing, like being locked up, for
 | > about 10 - 12 minutes then the HD action starts up again and after about a
 | > minute the browser pops up on the screen and is ready to go.
 | >
 | > After finally loading and coming up on the screen, they all work great.
 | > I have 486/40 with 8 megs ram and 12 meg swap, using Linux 1.2.13.
 | >
 | > Anyone have any clues to this one?
 | >
 | > Thanks,
 | > Larry
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 | Yes, it's your memory which simply isn't enough. 8 Mb is the bare minimum to
 | drive the X alone.
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 | Buy more memory, adding your swap to around 20 Mb might also help a little.

I doubt RAM is the problem.  I run on a 386 with 8M bytes RAM, and
Netscape 2.0 takes about 1 minute to become usable.

The behavior larry wyble describes is similar to the problem I used to
have before I changed my X font path.

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Rich Kasperowski                   Cambridge, MA, USA