Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 09:26:25 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: William Freeman <dfree@inna.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: some performance issues Message-ID: <386E38C1.30D7378A@3-cities.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001011639540.8913-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, William Freeman wrote: > > >Hello all. I've finaly gotten out of that evil linux cult and come back > >to the land of FreeBSD, how ever in 3.3R i have noticed that programmes > >such as Netscape, Licq, gnomecc, gIDE, e-conf, et cetera do not load as > >fast as they should, or in fact, occasionaly not in a reasonable amount > >of time. on a 400Mhz machine with 256MB of RAM i shouldn't have time to > >fetch a cup of coffie while waiting for one of these relitivly small > >applications to load when i don't have time to blink when loading Emacs > > I've had a similar experience with Licq. SOmetimes i have clicked on it > and it has *never* loaded at all. But i think this has something to do > with the net connection. Both Licq and Netscape try to connect before > they are usable, and sometimes Netscape looks like it has locked up, when > i think it is simply establishing a connection. Maybe i'm wrong here, > please let me know. But i have seen them both come up quickly and slowly, > so i think it has to do with an outside factor. I ping my ISP before I start Netscape. I have an alias 3c, which pings 3 times to bring up the ppp connection. Netscape comes up in 4 seconds after I am connected. Kent > > -=> jm <=- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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