Netscape uses a lot of memory.  Try getting more RAM and
lowering your swap file size.  This should also increase
speed slightly.

I use a DEC 486/33 SX, and upgrading from 8 MB to 24 MB is
the best thing I ever did for this unit.  The swap file
doesn't have to be so big, so the computer seems to run
twice as fast.

Richard Smith wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
>  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.
>
> Thanks for your valuable time,
>
> Richard Dennis Smith

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