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had trouble -- limited real RAM
Authored by: Krazy on Jan 27, '04 12:16:04AM

I too have had problems with 512 Mb of RAM. I've yet to download the spirit data updates, but even using the test data, I only get to around 98% of the data loading. What is confusing is the progress bar gets stuck there. First time I saw this I thought the program had hung. Also I've noticed lots of 'WARNING' messages output to the console....

Having experimented recently moving my virtual memory to a rather small but separate partition, (1GIG = 2 x real RAM), I was not surprised at all to see disk full warnings (for the swap partition) -- at which point the sensible solution was to kill the app. It seems to be a real memory hog! I guess the developers have loads of memory to burn so have no reason to make it work in a small memory footprint.

I suggest that people complain if they are having problems via Maestro's Forums: http://mars.telascience.org/forums



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