Can I run LabVIEW 8.6 on a 512MB Ram computer

[Flamboyant]

My Laptop is having 512MB Ram and Intel Celeron 1.5GHz Processor. Is this sufficient to do programming with LabVIEW 8.6.1, LabVIEW RT and LabVIEW FPGA.

[rolfk]

Yes, I think you could! But you won't get happy with this.

Get at least a memory upgrade! They are cheap and it outweights the grief you would get from a sluggish and painful experience by far. But a better CPU than a Celeron would be also helpful.

And no, LabVIEW FPGA won't run in any useful way on a 500MB machine. The FPGA compiler does really want at least 1 to 2 GB of memory. Otherwise the compile steps take exponentially more time. Even with 2GB, more complex designs can take several hours for each compilation. With 500MB this could easily mount up to a day or more.

Rolf Kalbermatter

Message Edited by rolfk on 09-30-2009 07:59 AM

[parthabe]

Definitely insufficient. Read the attached release notes.

[CoastalMaineBird]

I ran LabVIEW 8.2 with RT option talking to a PXI box under Win2k on a 1500 MHz P4 with 512 MB.

Worked OK; not great, not terrible.

Moving to LabVIEW 8.6, though, was like stepping into molasses.  The program itself (my code) was fine, but the environment was hell.

 Beg, borrow, or steal some more RAM.