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Java Plugin



Have you tried increasing your RAM?  128M is rather small when talking
about RH8 and Mozilla...  My mozilla process alone is about 100M of
core.  That doesn't leave a lot of room for, say, X, a couple Xterms,
Emacs, etc.

-derek

"Kalyan Vaidyanathan" <kalyan_v at hotmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>   I have RedHat 8.0 and Mozilla 1.0.1.  For some reason, I think the
> RH8.0 CDs did not have JRE, so java plugins did not seem to work.  So,
> I downloaded JRE 1.3.1.06, installed it, and after some trouble got
> plugins to work.  But now, when I tried it, the machine is painfully
> slow.  In fact, I am not even sure if the applet came on.  I closed
> the app after about 20 mins and gave up.  Each mouse click took about
> 5 mins to react.
>   fyi, I have  a Dell Dimension 8100 with 128MB RAM and 384MB swap.
>   So, basically, I would like reasonable performance and java plugins
> to work on my mozilla.  Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong?
> 
> let me know,
> thanks and regards,
> -kalyan
> 
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