Ray, I am also experiencing chokes but not specific to Revolution. My machine has 2GB of RAM as well. I believe Mac OS X no longer thinks 2GB of RAM is enough. I suspect I need at least 4 GB for smooth work.
Andre On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Ray Horsley <r...@linkit.com> wrote: > André, Mark, > > Thanks for these suggestions. I've worked on Macs for years but I'm > thinking of switching to Windows 7. I understand it's been received more > warmly than Vista and as I'm spending more time switching back and forth to > make sure colors and fonts look reasonably the same in my standalone on > Windows as they do on my Mac I'm considering the switch. > > For the last 4-5 years I'm on a Mac with 4 cores running at 2.66 with 2 GB > of DDR2 RAM. I'm thinking of stepping up to an i7 with 6 cores running at > 3.3 GHz with 12 GB of RAM. My work doesn't involve video rendering or > anything special. It's simply a lot of processing data and moving it to and > from a remote server. Recently I've noticed Revolution choking and > ultimately freezing on very heavy tasks, sometimes to the point that I'm > forced to log back in. This could be due to just 2 GB of DDR2 RAM or maybe > it could be points on my aging processor burning out. > > Anyway, if you know of any issues with Revolution and Windows 7 on a 64 bit > machine then please let me know. > > Thanks, > > Ray > > > On Aug 25, 2010, at 9:38 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: > > Ray, >> >> I don't think Rev is optmized for 64 bits or multiple cores. If the host >> system does some optimizations then it will benefit but then again, >> everyone >> will benefit. >> >> I don't know if you're talking about windows, mac or linux on this post >> but >> double check if there is no issue with Windows 64 bits and Rev. Windows >> compatibility stuff for running 32 bits stuff under a 64 bits system is >> not >> as good as apples (so they say). >> >> I think the best thing you can have for development is a HUGE OBSCENE >> AMOUNT >> OF RAM. >> >> RAM is king! RAM trumps Gigaherts! RAM trumps CPU! This is subjective, but >> I'd rather have a core 2 duo with 8 GB of ram than a i5 with 2 GB of RAM. >> >> Unless you are doing heavy number crunching and video processing will be >> more delayed by your system abilities to use memory (paging stuff to disk, >> all those silly software allocating 2GB of RAM, yes firefox, I am looking >> at >> you) than by CPU being busy. It is my humble opinion that somewhere after >> pentium 3 or near, CPUs got so freaking fast that they usually wait for >> you >> or other subsystems instead of you waiting for them to process something. >> My >> machine is quite fast with its core 2 duo but with only 2GB of RAM, I >> loose >> too much time and performance when running virtualbox and browsers and >> IDEs >> at the same time. >> >> You can never have enough RAM. If you have the money, check out how much >> maximum RAM your computer support and top it. You will not be sorry and if >> things go all right then you won't even notice anything because things >> will >> run smooth. >> >> Also multiple cores are wonderful, use as many as you can. Rev engine is >> not >> optimized for multicore usage but the rest of your operating system is so >> there's a benefit. >> >> Here on my work, one of our servers is a Dual Hexacore beast, so you got >> 12 >> cores working, with HT then you got 24 threads available. That is quite >> fast >> with its 48GB of RAM. Of course this is a server and not a desktop machine >> but even though the cores are not too fast, having a lot of RAM and 24 >> threads beats CPU raw power and speed. >> >> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Ray Horsley <r...@linkit.com> wrote: >> >> Greetings, >>> >>> Anybody know if Revolution uses 64 bit processing? Also, does Revolution >>> make use of multiple cores? In other words, would Revolution take >>> advantage >>> of features like an i7 3.33 gig processor? Please make any other >>> suggestions regarding the optimal system for speed when working in >>> Revolution and making lots of LibURL calls >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Ray Horsley >>> LinkIt! 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