William, I am traveling. However, My Ubuntu vm is 380MB. Mike Sent from my iPod
On Dec 4, 2009, at 8:59 AM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 -- 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
