Depending on what those Firefox tabs were, they could have put a significant load on your CPU (Flash ads for example) or used enough memory to make atlas work too hard. It would be interesting to know if it works if you aren't running anything else.
What is your processor and amount of RAM? -M. Hampton On Nov 5, 9:12 am, RegB <2regburg...@earthlink.net> wrote: > WOW, that was quick - THANKS. > I reviewed all of those and while interesting/useful they seem to be > not applicable to this particular failure. > > I had meant to say that on previous attempts I had discovered the need > for a fortran compiler and to disable cpu throttling. Also the > desirability of installing LaTeX, so I did those. > This is a very lightly loaded system, i,e, it is my personal laptop > and about the only other thing it was doing at the time of failure was > running Firefox with 1/2 dozen tabs open. > > Thanks again, I will try it all over again. > > Minh Nguyen wrote: > > Hi, > > > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:30 AM, RegB <2regburg...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > I know this is a modest laptop, but it seems to be in the tuning > > > section that the Atlas install fails after 12 hours or so. > > > You might want to read this section of the Sage FAQ: > > >http://www.sagemath.org/doc/faq/faq-usage.html#when-i-compile-sage-my... > > > -- > > Regards > > Minh Van Nguyen -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
