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Date:	Sun, 3 Jun 2001 23:19:01 PDT
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Big...Huge problem BENCHMARK

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Peter Skye wrote:
>
> delete the NETSCAPE.HST file.

I just benchmarked Netscape's time to load my personal home page. With
the old 10 MB NETSCAPE.HST file it took 5 minutes. After I deleted
NETSCAPE.HST it took 46 seconds. What a difference!

Here's what seems to be happening. The NETSCAPE.HST file apparently
holds your recently-visited sites so Netscape can "highlight" the page
links in a different color. But with 10 MB of links to check, any page
that has a lot of links will take a *long* time to check because every
link on the page has to be checked against the entire 10 MB file. The
file is almost certainly kept in memory, so this would explain why the
system "hangs" for long periods -- Netscape is busily checking the page
links against the history file.

My personal home page is just over a megabyte and is entirely links
(it's a huge bookmark file). *So*, every link in the 1 MB home page has
to be checked against the 10 MB history file. Zonk! Lots of cpu time
for the checking, and it takes 5 minutes to load. After deleting
NETSCAPE.HST the check time is very small and the system is fast and
responsive.

All of a sudden it's a pleasure again to use Netscape 4.61.

- Peter

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