Using Netscape 4.76 to visit some popular sites including: - slashdot.org (lots of text) - www.heise.de (text) - www.tomshardware.com (mixed text and graphics, a little complicate to render) - www.cnn.com (text) - www.google.com (text) - www.digitalblasphemy.com (mostly jpegs) - www.sparkasse-worms.de (for online-banking using Java, https) - www.tvspielfilm.de (Javascript, Flash, tables) - www.gnome.org/applist/ (long tables, hard to render) - ftp.de.debian.org (ftp via Netscape) Duration: ~1 hour. System: AMD K6-233 64 MB EDO-RAM, 256 MB swap space Maxtor 92041U4 Asus TX-97XE Environment: Gnome 1.2 (?) on top of Enlightenment and XFree86 4.0.2 Kernel 2.4.0 with linux-mm-cc patch 0.03 applied Netscape 4.76 Some idle background-processes like sshd, inetd, cron, getty Output of 'free': total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 62592 61176 1416 0 988 15332 -/+ buffers/cache: 44856 17736 Swap: 248996 18568 230428 'cat /proc/comp_cache': compressed cache - statistics for compressed pages (alg. WKdm) num_pages min_size max_size mean_size min_cycles max_cycles mean_cycles discarded_pages 5223 272 4372 2291 28397 250007 38055 1373 Ratios: compression ratio (mean_size/PAGE_SIZE): 56% discarded ratio (discarded_pages/num_pages): 26%