Re: V.6.0.2 gripes...
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- Subject: [mg86689] Re: V.6.0.2 gripes...
- From: "alexxx.magni at gmail.com" <alexxx.magni at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:51:24 -0500 (EST)
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me too I tried it: I forbidden Mathematica to accessin Internet (Help- >Internet Connectivity) and the slowdowns remained the same. I'd like very much to know what kind of Java code is needed right from the start in the Doc center, and in particular in the Virtual Book and the Function Navigator - since these last two are noticeably even slower. Alessandro Helen Read ha scritto: > David Bailey wrote: > > Helen Read wrote: > >> > >> We have been seeing the Java timeout error a lot, on machines on campus > >> and at home. It started a few months ago, and the upgrade from 6.0.1 to > >> 6.0.2 has not helped. If anything, I'm seeing the Java timeout more > >> frequently than before, even on two very speedy new machines where I was > >> rarely getting the Java error before. What happens much/most of the time > >> now is that when you start up Mathematica and go to execute a command, > >> Mathematica just hangs for a while. Eventually, after quite a long wait, > >> you get the first output, together with the Java timeout error. > >> *Usually* it's OK if you quit Mathematica and restart, or if you just > >> close up the error window and go on. > >> > > In the absence of a definitive response from WRI, I think it would be > > worth experimenting with a machine disconnected from the internet. I > > don't get this problem myself, but I have written code that depended on > > paclet information. This worked well if the machine could not access the > > internet (once the relevant data had been downloaded once) and well if > > the machine had a good internet connection. However with a weak > > connection, the system would seem to start the check for more up to date > > information, and then get stuck/crash. > > It seems unrelated to internet access. We have quite good connections at > the university, and we get the Java error there all the time. I have > dial-up at home, and I get the Java error regardless of whether I am > connected. > > > I wonder if Mathematica is trying to update some component on startup. > > Any internet access would probably occur via Java. In particular, have > > you configured your Mathematica to pre-load any software? > > Nope. But apparently Mathematica itself tries to load some Java stuff on > startup, hence the timeout errors. > > -- > Helen Read > University of Vermont