[rescue] Mozilla Firefox

Kevin Loch kloch at gurunet.net
Thu Apr 22 13:53:23 CDT 2004


Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 02:26:59PM -0400, Kevin Loch wrote:
> If a modern computer (for values of modern that at least go back to SS2s
> and 486s) can't fetch a file from disk faster than they can over a 1.5-2
> megabit network connection, then there is something wrong.  Either the
> computer is massively screwed up, or more likely the software is very
> badly written.  Even with (or perhaps especially with) large caches
> containing thousands of files.

Try it on an Ultra 10 with IDE disk.  Try it on any computer with
non SATA IDE.  Make sure you have lots of files in the cache
before turning it off.



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