[CALUG] F-12 observations w/ dialup/FF

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

  DUDE! Modems are SOOOO 20th Century.

Get yourself a Cable Modem, or FIOS, or something!

And another G of memory (2G total) would also be nice.

JIM

P.S. Ask your ISP if they have a Web Cache Proxy you can use....that 
might be faster.

On 10/3/2010 3:49 PM, Walt Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to offer observations, and hope to
> see if anyone may have seen or heard similar.
>
> I'm using F-12, FF 3.5.9, 2 different distro kernels and have used
> F-10 thru 3 kernels, with the same peculiarities.
> I know this is purely hum observable, so if you're into
> instrumentation, you'll be disappointed.
>
> Same box for 2 cases with with 512 megs ram, DDR 2700. 2.6 ghz.
>
> case 1:
> Using modem lights, with  web pages, they blink and sometimes
> there's a bit of time when they don't blink; I'm talking maybe
> 1/2 second - 1 second.  Using FF with multiple tabs.
> This has been the case forever ( F9, F7 etc.. )
>
> case 2:
> slashdot often, I mean 50% of the time,  times out and I
> have to reload the web page.  I usually make sure other
> web pages aren't loading.  This happened in F10, F12.
>
> CHANGE:  I upgrade box to 1 gig megs ram.
> case 1:
> web lights blink a lot less and are mostly continuously on.
> When they blink, it is briefly at the same time rather than
> separately.  My D/L's are marginally faster, it seems.
>
> case 2:
> slashdot loads and doesn't give some kind of "connection timeout"
> It properly completes.
>
> case 3:
> ( only recently )
> www.theregister.co.uk, on first try of the day, gets an "entrynotfound"
> in the status bar, and the web page for teoma.com comes up, and
> can't find the vulture !! dns is coretel.  It takes several tries
> including perhaps closing the tab and retrying several times.  It takes
> unknown tries ( 5-10?) but eventually works.  So far, other web pages
> seem OK.
>
> I know X and FF can eat up space, but -- *really * ??????
> I don't get much in the way of swap lights on HD if they're the
> only 2 apps running ... I can kill FF, and restart with the same
> effect.  I really don't want to believe I need so much memory
> for mundance tasks.  OTOH, I suppose I could remove the DRR's and
> use "free" to show I DO have free memory..  But I don't think
> it would say much except memory is free...
>
>
> speculation??
>
> thx,
> Walt.............
>
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