Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3397 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

John,

On Sunday 24 April 2005 15:56, John Sowden wrote:
> ...
>
> First, thanks for all the feedback.
>
> I am running the Konq that came with Suse 8.0.
> I do not know which JVM I am running, but I did not install it,
> so I assume it is the one that came with Suse 8.0.
> If you tell me how, I will check that (and learn how at the same
> time!) re: 48MB is overkill _for other work_, I was referring to
> MS-DOS 7.0 that I use on the other computers in our office, and this
> one (boots DOS/Linux), as well as my 128MB 1.3GHz Suse 8.2 machine
> (also boots DOS/Linux). ...

I unerstood what you meant by the "overkill" statement.

But I'm afraid you're asking too much from the computing hardware you're 
using. You don't have enough memory or enough CPU cycles (per second).

Another thing to keep in mind is that Java gets its speed from 
translating the program's so-called "byte-codes" (machine instructions 
for the Java Virtual Machine) to native machine instructions on an 
on-demand basis. This takes more memory (not accounted for in the 
-Xmx<size> option, by the way), and if memory is not available for that 
purpose, then this JIT ("just in time") compilation process is impaired 
and you must run more of the program in fully interpreted mode, which 
can be pretty slow.

If this is your only alternative for accessing these on-line resources, 
then you're going to have make up the difference with patience.

I'd consider myself lucky to get any of this working at all!


> John Sowden


Randall Schulz