Well! Congrats on the ADSL (at last!) LOTR. You can always confirm which java LW is using from the sample bug report in prefs.

et voilà--Thanks for yesterday's reminder to try on both machines.
I ran both the G3 and G4 for more than 18hrs (as UP's; the usual 2 GB+ of uploads and a few big swarmed downloads), and the VM never went higher than 800 MB's on either machine, so I couldn't repeat yesterday's results.

I ran out of time to see if repeated "browse host" might be the factor, since that was what I was playing with mostly before. Browsing a host with lots of shares is still the number one way to get a non-responsive screen here.

I did do a safe boot/permission repair on the G3, though. Perhaps that might make a difference for you too LOTR (I'd be interested in hearing if it does).

btw LOTR--has your ISP set a monthly cap on the bandwidth? Automatic throttling starts here as soon as bw exceeds 70 GB in the last 30 days.