[Qgis-user] Poor performance on Toshiba Laptop

[Alex Mandel]

Try swapping that out for the ubuntugis unstable repo, you might have a
really old version of gdal (and some other libs) coming from the regular
ubuntu repos. No promises but would be good to see if that has any change.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable

Thanks,
Alex

On 09/02/2011 07:23 PM, acarvajales at fcien.edu.uy wrote:
> First of all, thanks for such a complete and quick response, Alex.
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> Secondly, the repositories are those suggested at qgis.org:
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> deb     http://qgis.org/debian natty main
> deb-src http://qgis.org/debian natty main
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> Whether or not the nature of the shape i'm trying to work with is what
> undermines my possibilities of running QGIS normally enough, i'm afraid
> i have no way of giving you that info right away.
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> The file, as i understand, can (in fact) be used by the general public,
> so i'll try to sort out some way of gettin' it to the web.
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> Finally, yes, i have tried other shapes (lighter ones, of course) and it
> performs beautifully.
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> Any other thoughts are welcomed, so thanks again...
> 
> With regards,
> 
> Andrés.
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> Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> escribió:
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>> On 09/02/2011 04:34 PM, acarvajales at fcien.edu.uy wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I've just started using QGis (Wroclaw). I'm working on a 120 mb .shp
>>> file, in my Toshiba L645 laptop. I agree it's not the greatest machine,
>>> but it is what i can afford (as of now, just a grad-student). This model
>>> includes core i3 cpu, with intel HD graphics, and 3 GB of RAM.
>>>
>>> My questions to you all are...
>>>
>>> a) shouldn't i be able to work comfortably with files this size? if yes,
>>> in my laptop is certainly not the case, and i would very much like to
>>> have a clue as to why.
>>>
>>> b) the program keeps crashing (in Windows and in Ubuntu, keep in mind
>>> it's the first time i've had to kill a process in Linux to be able to
>>> continue working normally), is this normal?
>>>
>>> c) do i need more RAM, do i need a state of the art video card?
>>>
>>> I'm a total newbie to the world of GIS, being trained to become a
>>> biologist.. is it a matter of patience, solely? Trying, trying and
>>> trying?
>>>
>>> Whatever help you can provide, it'll be most appreciated.
>>>
>>> With regards,
>>>
>>> Andrés.
>>>
>>
>> I don't see why that machine would have any difficulty, many of us
>> actually have much older machines with less computer power.
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>> Is the file something you can publicly post to the web for download so
>> that some other people can try to see if it's a problem with the file?
>> Have you tried other shapefiles of varying sizes? How do they perform?
>>
>> It's very unusual to have to kill QGIS in linux. Which repo are you
>> using QGIS from?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>>
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