[X4U] Safari problems

[jwarms at mac.com]

On May 20, 2006, at 21:29:19 -0700, railfan at telus.net wrote:

> My daughter is using my 6 yr old iBook 366SE, with 320MB RAM. She  
> has OS X 10.3.9
> and a cable modem connected via Airport.
>
> When she surfs the web using Safari v1.3.2, after about 10 minutes,  
> the pages no
> longer load. She needs to quit Safari, close the clamshell, wait a  
> few minutes then
> go and start Safari again, for another 15-30 minutes of surfing.  
> She reads her email
> from her webmail and prefers it that way.
>
> I know Safari can be a memory hog, and with only 320 MB RAM, but  
> are there any
> things I can do to stop or atleast mitigate Safari from "locking up"?

I have the original clamshell (300 MHz) with 320MB memory, and it  
runs 10.3.9 very nicely
- a little slow, but nicely.

It, like the 366SE, came with a miniscule hard drive. I've replaced  
the HD with a 40GB
drive, so I have no probs.

How big is the HD? How much free space? Small memory means a lot of  
swap space
is needed on the hard drive, and surfing requires HD space for cache.

Maybe 10 minutes of surfing uses up the available cache space, and it  
isn't freed up
until the session ends or the app is rebooted. She might consider a  
bigger hard drive.

(While a replacement hard drive isn't that expensive, DIY  
installation is a real PITA.)

Jon
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