[PLUG] Slow Page Loading in SeaMonkey

[wes]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>wrote:

>   I'd like to understand the factors that might affect web page loading
> speed on the laptop here. It's connected wirelessly to the local network,
> but I can ping external web sites and get a very quick response time while
> a
> page from that same site can take minutes to load.
>
>   Could this be related to the 256M of RAM? Is there some other factor that
> could be affecting the speed? Sometimes all pages load very quickly, other
> times excessively slowly. At these slow loading times, I don't see the same
> time delay when loading pages on my workstation here.
>
>   Any insights on what factors might be involved will help me determine if
> I
> can get it to consistently quickly load pages.
>
> Rich
>

Yes, the limited RAM can definitely cause exactly what you're describing.
What kind of processor speed do you have in that laptop?

With a modern OS running on 256MB of RAM, you will see a lot of swapping to
the hard drive. Since the hard drive is much slower than RAM, it will take
much longer to do anything.

-wes