Stilian Elenkov wrote in message <3739D76F.D05B2874_at_vtls.com>...
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>NT WKS takes 16M min. Word takes another 10M on a good day. You figure
>out the amount of swapping.
>There is no way it runs OK (sit while doing nothing maybe).
>I have Word running (as I write this) on a dual PII 400 WKS with 256M
>and UW SCSI drives and when running multiple other apps (Delphi C/S,
>TOAD, OEM, Netscape, ReflectionsX, etc. Word consumes vast amounts of
>CPU and causes swapping even though there is plenty of free memory. And
>this is with FindFast removed. Before that it would bring the machine to
>it knees.
>A guess we have different definitions of "almost instant".
I have virtually the same hardware as you do except I only have a single PII
processor. Right now I'm running Win98, and have all kinds of memory hogs
open. (Outlook, Outlook Express, Access 2.0, Access 97, and a Creative Live
PlayCenter running "Dixie Chicks") and when I click on Word in Win Explorer,
it opens almost faster than I can get my hands back to the keyboard. Maybe
it's Netscape <g> or at least one of your other programs giving you the
grief.
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Arvin Meyer
onsite_at_esinet.net
Received on Wed May 12 1999 - 16:33:41 CDT
