I just barely caught the coffee cup logo you're talking about on a 2.6GHz P4
w/1.5gig RAM and a 5Mbit (down) cable modem. About 5 seconds total from
clicking the link to the end of the first refresh. And most of that was
download time, as CPU usage averaged less than 50%.
Not counting how long it took to install Sun's Java.
Randall
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shop-talk-bounces+tr3driver=ca.rr.com@autox.team.net
> [mailto:shop-talk-bounces+tr3driver=ca.rr.com@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Pat
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 3:40 PM
> To: Karl Vacek
> Cc: shoptalk; David Scheidt
> Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] OT - Java is sloooow
>
> It took my machine on a 3 Meg wisp 45 seconds to come up from
> the time I clicked your link. Xp SP2, AMD Sempron processor,
> 1.6 GHz, 768 MB ram,
> 59 processes running.
>
>
> Peace,
> Pat
>
> Thusly spake Karl Vacek:
> > Here's the NWS site I visit whenever I want real-time local radar.
> > Once it's running, downloading new maps for a different area,
> > different view, etc., still takes some time, particularly
> when looping
> > beacuse it's downloading lots of images (I have 6 Meg DSL, by the
> > way), but what I'm complaining about is the initial start-up when I
> > see the Java coffee cup logo for a half a minute or more.
> >
> > http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge/radar.php?product=NCR&rid=LOT&loop=yes
> >
> >
> >
> >>> I still think it's Java. Like Adopey, they seem to hate PC's and
> >>> want to make everything they write run poorly on a PC so the user
> >>> will blame the PC.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> When you start a java applet that's on a website, you have to down
> >> load the applet. If it's big, that can take some time, if you or
> >> they have a slow or overloaded network connection.
> >>
> >> Are any of these on public sites that you can tell us what
> you're doing?
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> David Scheidt
> >> dmscheidt@gmail.com
> >>
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