Thanks, everyone, for all the help. I checked the memory use (using
"free") with Mozilla and a few other programs running. Memory use never
went much above 85MB out of a total of about 250) , so I don't have to
increase the swap partition, at least for now.
And I will try removing unnecessary software with dselect. I was
hesitant to do this. I guess I still have a "Windows" mindset because
so often I was unable to uninstall things cleanly. I would always end
up reloading the operating system. I got used to doing this several
times a year.
Mozilla is still a bit slow on my Pentium 200, so I'll try Galeon and
other browsers. The worst of it is typing. I'm using Mozilla to
compose this email and although I'm not an extremely fast typist I'm
finding that my keystrokes get ahead of the program's ability to display
the letters. Very disconcerting! I end up making lots of mistakes!
I'll have to check out other email programs as well.
Thanks,
Peter Christensen
