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 -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- This message was sent by -- -- James A. Frey -- -- FreyNet Technologies -- -- http://freynet.com/freynet -- ~~j~~i~~m~~m~~y~~~~b~~u~~r~~n~~e~~r~~~~l~~i~~v~~e~~s~~~~o~~n~~