Hi,
I just downloaded the GUM, html version.
I read that the manual was very "resource
intensive". So, I installed GUM on a machine
with:
256 Megs 6 nanosecond SDRAM
Dual PII-350 processors
SCSI HD, plenty or swap and free space
SuSE 6.3, fresh install,
Netscape 4.72
Running only KDE, Netscape and one xterm
I then opened Index.html, and watched as
the system ground to a halt, and became
unusable. Movements of the mouse were
lost. I walked away, and 10 minutes later
the Javascript was finished. A painfully
slow top showed that Netscape had requires
91 megs or RAM, and a hefty chunk of one
of the CPUs.
I appreciate that the manual is resource
intensive. But exactly what type of system
do you have to own to get GUM *usuable* in
html form? A Sun Enterprise 450 server?
Is there any effort to rewrite the search
engine (currently in Javascript) into something
more sane, like perl?
Or perhaps I did something wrong?
Cheers,
--
nonet_q
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