Hello Michiel, On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Michiel Meeuwissen wrote:
> It seems that a way to accomplish this is running apt-get upgrade, > netsape and seti at the same time, in my computer (potato, PIII 500 64 > Mb). On Netscape's webpage they strongly recommend at least 64 Mb of RAM for use of Netscape with Linux. So if you run Netscape AND another resource-eating program on a 64 Mb machine, you can expect high loads, at least at startup. Don't know why Netscape is more resource-eating on Linux than on Windows, but I would be strongly interested in that issue. > What can be done about this? Does there exist some 'memory quota' > mechanism? I would e.g. like to see that netscape processes never take > more than 50 Mb of memory. You can change the nice-level of programs (man nice), then they will leave more of the system resources for other processes, but this will slow down the speed of the program. I don't think this is practical in case of Netscape. > Or perhaps there exist some program which > starts shooting of non essential processes (like those of *(@$&(! > netscape) when the load gets higher than 15 or 20 or so? Simpler solution: Don't start Netscape if you don't really, really need it. Regards, Daniel
