Hi, 1) Try reducing the amount of memory allocated to the Sage Virtual machine from 512MB to 384MB.
2) Windows XP (even with only 1GB) is a very important platform for Sage, IMHO. -- William On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Michael Madison <madison.mich...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am running Sage 4.2.1 on a old 1GB ram XP computer with the > VirtualBox binary distribution. In the notebook if I try a 3D graph > Firefox shuts down and kills the Sage session. This is the same > problem I had with the VirtualBox Sage version 4.2. > > I have also created a separate Ubuntu 9.1 vm in VirtualBox, where I > loaded all the stuff needed to run and compile Sage 4.21. This > included the FireFox upgrades needed to run the 3D plots from a > notebook. To this vm I added a second network connection which is a > VirtualBox host only, just like in the binary VirtualBox Sage 4.21. I > compiled Sage 4.21. When I run the notebook sage using the Firefox > inside the Ubuntu 9.1 vm everything works great and I get 3D graphs. > I can also start a Sage notebook with a IP address and access it from > my Windows Firefox. This works fine until I run a 3D graph and then > the windows Firefox closes down, just like in the binary distribution > for VirtualBox Sage 4.21. However, if I start Firefox in Ubuntu I can > get into the same sheet and run the 3D graph with no problem and Sage > has not shut down. > > I suspect the problem with the 3D graph is from the VirtualBox host > connection. I don't know if it is just because of my XP system. > > In general I like the VirtualBox system better than VMware. However, > for users with old XP systems it is a problem. Below I included my > system specs. Mike > > Intel Celeron M 1.5 GHz, 1 GB Ram > Microsoft Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600, Service Pack 3 > VirtualBox 3.0.10 > > > results from cat /proc/cpuinfo > > processor : 0 > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 6 > model : 13 > model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.50GHz > stepping : 8 > cpu MHz : 1476.382 > cache size : 1024 KB > fdiv_bug : no > hlt_bug : no > f00f_bug : no > coma_bug : no > fpu : yes > fpu_exception : yes > cpuid level : 2 > wp : yes > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr > pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss nx up > bogomips : 3007.50 > > -- > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
