JRE

I've found that I need 64 MB to keep StarOffice from swapping much.
That's under a lean WindowMaker setup. To run Netscape and StarOffice
at the same time, without swapping, I've found that 128 MB works.

-BVG

Joel Dudley wrote:
>
> Does star office run faster when running under Jave in the JRE? I installed
> it using the Java-less option and man is it slow. I have a K6-2 300 with 48
> MB of RAM on my linux box and Star Office takes about 2 minutes just to
> load up and when I am actually in it is is slower than heck. Got a bit
> better when I did hdparm -c3d1 /dev/hda, but still not usuable for my
> patience today. I got so frustrated I am now going to type my paper in
> Office 97 on my Game Machine (please forgive me for my momentary weakness).
> Come to think of it my entire Gnome experience has been much slower than I
> am used to. I have an 8 meg 3D labs card but Xconfigurator only found it to
> have 512 K of RAM I tried to set it manually. Could X perhaps be
> underutilizing my card? Maybe I should just get a better Card like a viper
> v550, anyone have on for trade/sale? Thanks in advance as always.
>
> - Joel
>
> Just realizing my path out of newbiedom just got longer
>
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