On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > De Jay wrote > > FYI, when I tried running Netscape on my 386 with 8M RAM (30M swap), > > it locked up my machine every time. you've been warned. > > Did you have a coprocessor, and did you have xfs running?
yes, I had a coprocessor. I believe you are referring to 'xdm', not xfs. i had xdm running as well. xfs (dos-based nfs client) was running on my 286, while pcnfsd nfsd and mountd were running on my 386. netscape took between 8 and 15 minutes to load, and as soon as I landed on a page with too much animation (animated gifs or java scripts, it didn't matter), netscape would lock up my whole machine. i used every trick in the book to kill netscape and/or get back into the machine with another console or another terminal... but even my serial-line terminal was locked up, so I know that there was no way back in. BTW, only 70% of my virtual memory was occupied when it crashed. if you have any suggestions that I have not thought of yet, i am willing to try them >:-) - DeJay. _________ / Bedrock \__________________________ | http://bedrock.dyn.ml.org/dejay | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |_____________________________________| > A yar and a half or so ago, someone using macbsd without a coprocessor > found that, contrary to what was believed, mosaic did work with > an emulated coprocessor. He got called away and returned > an hour later, discovering that it had launched. > > Selecting fonts with no postscript equivalent for *everythign* > and running xfs make all the difference in the world. For that matter, > even with a 486 & coprocessor, they make the difference between > painful & usable. > > X is single-threaded. While it renders a font,, it can do nothing > else. And on a slow machine without a coprocessor, this takes a > very long time. With a 486/33, it can take a couple of minutes. > > By running xfs, you can keep the rest of X running to do something else > (like hit keys to switch to a console :) > > rick > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
