Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 18:18:48 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Taming Netscape Navigator? Message-ID: <20020302181848.D3880@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0203020853270.2796-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>; from reed@reedmedia.net on Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 09:23:21AM -0800 References: <3C7FB956.18428.510B414@localhost> <Pine.LNX.4.43.0203020853270.2796-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>
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On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 09:23:21AM -0800 I heard the voice of Jeremy C. Reed, and lo! it spake thus: > > > There's no real file I/O happening (unless you're really short on RAM and > > thrashing the swap), it's just being painfully slow about calculating out > > the table. > > It is also slow for me to just look at long 100KB webpages that have very > little formatting (and no tables). It's not instantaneous, but I haven't noticed any big delays on pages that size (certainly not relative to what ever other graphical browser has). > > It's a lot slower rendering big tables (like 10 vs. 30 minutes, for some > > *BIG* tables I've passed through 'em), and isn't near as snappy overall, > > You are patient. After a couple minutes, I log on remotely to kill all the > netscapes. No, it was a meg and a half (of very compact HTML) of one big table that I *HAD* to get information out of. Patience is irrelevant when necessity comes into the equation :) Why log on remotely? I just kill it locally if I have to (which isn't too often... it rarely locks up unless it's doing something I want done, which it will eventually finish, and the rest of the time crashes close it neatly :) > But what about "controlling" netscape? > > How or why does it make my X and/or window manager unusable? Because it nails the CPU up to the wall. I nice it to +10, which makes a slight difference. Using a dual-CPU workstations makes a heck of a lot more, since I can nail it up to the wall and keep playing mp3's, and still have the majority of a CPU available for interactive response. I fully intend to never use a single-CPU system for a workstation ever again. I like the safety net. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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