John Chin wrote:

> At 11:43 PM 3/13/1997  Richard Dennis Smith wrote:
> >
> > I have a 3yr old gateway 486-66, 8Mb RAM, Western Digital Caviar
> >AC31200 ,1.2 gig Hard disk. It is running Win 3.11(WFW) with perm swap
> >file 8416 Kb and 3072 Kb cache, Which cache I know is a little large.
> >Both 32 bit disk access and 32 bit file access enabled.
> >
> >The problem occurs mainly in Netscape 3.01, Memory cache 1000 Kb and
> >Disk cache 5000 Kb after a few minutes of using it when the hard drive
> >runs and runs and only stops intermittently. This also occurs in other
> >applications, like my mail client Pegasus.
> >
> >Sometimes after quite a while the programs just freeze up and I must
> >press reset to reboot.
> >
> >If anyone has any insight into this hard disk behavior and how I can
> >fix it with my resources at hand please let me know.
>
> Richard:
>
> My first choice would be to add more RAM. Bring it to 16MB.
> Your system is choking, trying to lay everything to virtual
> memory (your hard disk).
>
> Regards,
>
> John Chin

I agree with John.  I had the same problem running Netscape with 8 Mb RAM
and a Pentium "Dinosaur" 75 MHz.  I upgraded (added two 8 Mb modules) and
things work great now!

James
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