[PLUG] Slow Page Loading in SeaMonkey

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Feb 16 03:24:04 UTC 2009


On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, wes wrote:

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

   I think it's a 500MHz PIII.

> 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.

   Haven't seeen hard drive led activity, but I don't stare at it, either.

   Well, time to bite the bullet and get to Memory Time. The rarity factor
has driven up the price: $60/DIMM. Sigh.

Thanks for the confirmation,

Rich

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