[OSM-newbies] Memory, graphics or cpu

[Russell Tiedt]

On 2012/01/11 05:06 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
> On 1/11/12 9:48 AM, Russell Tiedt wrote:
>> On 2012/01/10 05:40 PM, Phil! Gold wrote:
>>> 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 ... ?
> i'm not sure  how important the OS really is. JOSM is principally 
> dependent
> on the JVM implementation, and should work pretty well in Linux,Windows,
> or MacOS (i use JOSM in MacOS at home with good results, and develop Java
> code at the day job in Windows XP, and don't think there will be a 
> noticeable
> difference.)
>
Okay, just noticed that, Java, is 32-bit, and I suspect that all, the 
browsers, I have installed are 32-bit, I don't use Internet Explorer at 
all. Running on 64-bit WIN7 Home Premium, with 4Gig. RAM on my Dell 
Laptop ...

> likewise, Potlatch is mostly dependent on the quality of the Flash 
> implementation.
> it may be a touch browser sensitive because of this, but i'd expect 
> good results
> in most modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, etc.)
>

Run FireFox, Chrome or Safari sometimes ...
> as Phil said, memory is probably the most important thing. 2G minimum, i
> personally don't like running any less than 4G. and if you're using JOSM,
> learn how to adjust the JVM memory settings for your native environment
> as the JVM likely won't automagically detect all that RAM.
Okay, will look into that ...

Thanks,

Regards,

Russell