Why Does System Slow Down

[Arnold]

I am running BX6 R2 w/128Meg,cel 300a overclocked at 450 and am using Netscape 4.51. After leaving system on all day, I find connecting and browsing is very slow or almost not usable. If I reboot everything runs fine. What is causing this

[bdog]

You probably have programs running that are leaking memory. Type cntrl alt delete and see if you got a bunch of stuff running that you don't need. if so type msconfig in run box and remove it from start up.

[seti]

If I can get windows to go a whole day without crashing, I make sure to restart it once in a 24hr period. This would probably be classified under the voodoo magic genre, but I find windows slows down with out it. There are various ram defrag utilities, but I don't know if those are any less voodoo magic.

[Target]

I'd LOVE to know the answer to this myself!

I have the same board, and also am a Netscape user. I monitor my system memory with Winsystem98, and can actually watch it gradually disappear! I have been careful NOT to allow any other programs to run, and still the memory slowly leaks away until its basically gone.

Thankfully, Winsystem98 has a function that recovers memory, and I have to use it often!

I have suspected that Netscape slowly either leaks memory away from the system, or simply fails to return it to the kernal.

Does anyone have any proof of this or other theories?

[Wiz]

whenever i leave my computer on for extended periods of time, i get rid of all non-essential porgrams, i.e. anything but explorer and systray. The computer i am at now has been for 48 hrs, and i'm browsing with netscape now, no probs. Cracking CSC is taking forever -=]