David Kirkby <[email protected]> writes: > On 31 August 2012 21:20, Guilherme Boaviagem Ribeiro > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I have installed Sage (with the file sage-5.0-disk1.vmdk) on my Windows >> 64-bits (4 GB RAM, and processor of 2.4 GHz), and it is already running in >> my Virtual Box. But it's way too slow, even for the simplest commands, does >> anyone have any idea of what could be the reason for this? My virtual >> machine is running Sage in Fedora with 512 MB of memory and 16 MB of video >> memory. > > 512 MB of RAM seems far too low to me. As someone else pointed out, > Sage is not a small program. Personally I'd look at the possibility of > shrinking the Windows partition a bit, and dual-booting with Linux. > Then you will have the full 4 GB for Sage. > > I found the best way to shrink the Windows partition under Windows > Vista was to get a trial of a 3rd party parition tool. I forget what > it is, but it could defragment the disk far more than Windows could. > You also need to disable the hybernation mode temporarily, and turn > off the ability to page to disk. If you do both of them, you should be > able to shrink the partition, then install Linux.
Honestly I don't think it's very constructive to tell users that they should install a different operating system in order to use Sage, and that is basically what this dual-booting suggestion amounts to - dual-booting is unlikely to be a very convenient way for anyone to use Sage unless they start using the Sage-capable OS for their other programs as well. The ability to multitask is something that everyone assumes these days. I doubt many people are willing to reboot their computer and do nothing but type code in Sage for a stretch of time, then reboot again and do everything other than Sage for a stretch of time. This doesn't make sense. -Keshav ---- Join us in #sagemath on irc.freenode.net ! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support?hl=en.
