Alice running slowly -> more RAM will help -
07-04-2006, 07:13 AM
It's impossible to know for sure, but I strongly suspect the problem here is that you are memory-starved. While we cite 128 meg as the minimal acceptable RAM configuration, Alice runs slowly with that little RAM. I would suggest making sure all other applications are closed, and that you're not launching other applications at startup.
Alice runs slowly (but not as slowly as you describe) on machines with only 128 of RAM, so I suspect there is something additional going on that is making it even worse.
Memory is now cheap enough that it may be your best solution to just add more; that will make Alice, and a lot of other things, run much faster, on your machine if you can't pinpoint what else is going on.
I'm sorry that's not much of a silver bullet of a response.
Randy Pausch
Director of the Alice Project
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