On 29/08/2002 00:36 Jerry Baker reared up on his hind legs and bellowed: > Brian Heinrich says: >> On 28 Aug 2002, it is alleged that Manuel Streuhofer sauntered in to >> netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news and loudly proclaimed: >> >>> On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 15:02:36 +0000, Jerry Baker wrote: >>> >>>> Manuel Streuhofer says: >>>> >>>>> Well i would say this 5 seconds are a perfect time to think about >>>>> changing to a real operating system with intelligent caching and >>>>> virtual memory algorithms. >>>> >>>> >>>> So you wouldn't recommend Linux then? >>> >>> >>> Why do you think? >>> The original Question was telling you that this problems occure with >>> WinME. so where is the problem with linux? (beside the fact that we >>> probably should not discuss about this here) :-) >>> >>> Manuel >> >> >> Actually, he's on W2K. But to some extend your comment is bang-on: >> when this disk swap issue comes up, it's almost invariably with someone >> using W2K/XP. >> >> /b. > > What does that have to do with anything? Whenever someone complains that > Mozilla brought down their entire X-windows session, it's usually Linux. > The issue is not an OS issue, but a Mozilla issue. The slowness happens > on Mac too. Oops, the "it's the OSs fault" excuse for not fixing broken > applications didn't work. >
I'd have to agree that Moz is the culprit. I see this too on WinXP and W2K (512 & 256MB respectively) yet I can be running VC++ with a large project loaded which has a larger memory footprint than Moz yet it restores *much* faster than Moz. > There's already bugs on slow windows. See: > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48274 > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76831 > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133812 > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163264 > -- One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking a zero, they had no way to indicate the successful termination of their C programs. Anti-spam e-mail address, sorry for the inconvenience
