[OSM-newbies] Memory, graphics or cpu

[Russell Tiedt]

On 2012/01/10 05:40 PM, Phil! Gold wrote:
> * Russell Tiedt<rustysbbs at gmail.com>  [2012-01-07 08:17 +0200]:
>> To get maps to redraw quickly and smoothly which is more important,
>> the amount of memory a system has available, the power of the CPU,
>> or a good graphics card. For use with Potlatch 2, and JOSM.
> Memory, definitely.  Potlatch and JOSM make very modest demands on video
> cards, especially as compared to modern games, so that shouldn't be a
> concern.  I have occasionally had times where I was waiting for JOSM to
> finish calculating something, but that sort of thing tends to be rare.  I
> have run into memory constraints much more often--when I ran JOSM on a
> computer with only 1GB of RAM, I had to close most other programs and even
> then I couldn't edit too large (or detailed) an area with JOSM.  It's
> mostly happy on a computer with 4GB of RAM, but I still occasionally have
> issues if I'm running a lot of other programs and have a lot of objects
> loaded into JOSM.
>
Which operating system, 32/64bit, and which browser ... ?

Thanks,

Russell