Does the meteor development need high config machines?

jacksonrufusk · March 23, 2018, 5:15pm

I use win64 4GB Memory System for development. Meteor 1.6 32 Bit is installed. Whenever the app is built/rebuilt & running it slows down the entire system, browser and eats a lot of memory.

Is there any minimum requirements to install meteor?
Any best practices to make my development faster…?

I have installed few packages with meteor

accounts-password
iron-router
semantic:ui
check
random
mongo

copleykj · March 23, 2018, 6:38pm

Personally I would want a system with at least 8gb of ram, a 2nd or 3rd gen I7 or equivalent, and an SSD. The biggest bottleneck is probably going to be disk though so if I had to choose just one of those I would choose an SSD.

jacksonrufusk · March 23, 2018, 7:03pm

Thank you. That would be an expensive choice for me to invest in my old Windows PC…!!

I have a Mac with 8GB of RAM, i5 processor and SSD, hope this combo will give the best experience in developing my application…!!

jacksonrufusk · March 23, 2018, 7:08pm

but this guy got some serious skills,

Probably a boost up to my current environment…!!

coagmano · March 23, 2018, 11:44pm

Before you switch machines, make sure you’ve checked your anti-virus settings.

As I mention in every windows thread:

coagmano:

99% of Windows issues with Meteor are caused by anti-virus slowing down file operations, as there are A LOT of files involved in node apps.

I’ve added exclusions to Windows Defender for
node.exe
7z.exe
choco.exe
and the meteor folder at C:\Users%USERNAME%\AppData\Local.meteor\
This speeds up installs, updates, and builds by about 500%

jacksonrufusk · March 24, 2018, 1:08pm

Dude… Thanks a lot…
This really saved my time waiting for each builds/run & memory issues.

You saved some pennies too…