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Re: [SLE] empty the swap partition? slow internet
  • From: Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 18:40:29 -0400
  • Message-id: <200504241840.29165.bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Sunday 24 April 2005 06:31 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> However, I now look back and see that John says "48 MB is overkill."
>
> >From that perspective, Carlos is right. You'll have trouble running
>
> non-trivial Java code with so little RAM. In fact, I don't see how
> you're running a GUI environment of any sort in so little RAM.
>
> Generally speaking, the solution to such a problem with Java software is
> to increase the JVM maximum heap size by specifying the -Xmx<size>
> option, but I don't know how to do that for applets running within a
> browser.
>
> John, which browser and which JVM release are you using?

John didn't say he was using java. That was Carlo's idea.

In my opinion he was lucky to get a GUI environment installed at all in 48M,
much less to get it to run.

The answer is more resources, both cpu and memory. Without that, it will
never run well.

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