On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Gary C Martin <g...@garycmartin.com> wrote:
> On 3 Mar 2009, at 20:14, Tiago Marques wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Gary C Martin <g...@garycmartin.com> >> wrote: >> On 3 Mar 2009, at 16:35, Aaron Konstam wrote: >> >> > Both 800 and 801 lockup completely fairly regularly. Once locked up >> > the >> > keys don't work . All I can do is hit the start button to turn the >> > machine off and then turn it back on. >> > >> > Am I the only one having this problem? >> >> Hi Aaron, >> >> Occasional lockups for me are almost always related to lack of memory. >> Can you describe what/how many Activities you usually have running? >> >> > If this is the case, do yourself a favor and by an SD card to use as SWAP. >>> Life will be much better with the XO. If you have the extra $$$, grab one >>> that's SDHC, class 6. >>> The Class 6 card will make the machine more responsive, although I use >>> one Class 2(hdparm shows about 6MB/s though) and it's fine. >>> Best regards, >>> Tiago Marques >>> >> > Absolutely and thanks for the feedback, lack/absence of SWAP on the XO is > the root of many evils. Though personally, I try to avoid things our target > audience won't be able to use so I get the best impressions of problems they > may be encountering – but for tech users, this will give you leeway. At least for me, I can't get more than 3 hours of battery with the SD card in the slot. Have you considered adding a card for deployments, given how cheap they are nowadays? May be advantageous in deployments where energy is not that scarce(if there are any). Best regards, Tiago Marques > > > --Gary > > The two that catch me out more often are Read and Browse: >> >> - Read; it depends on the complexity of the PDF, but it (evince) is >> having to rasterize pages as you scroll and zoom about – a good >> example is trying to zoom way in on the pdf world maps provided in the >> default installed library, you'll soon run out of memory. >> >> - Browse; Sites with heavy flash are very bad (that why it's a REALY >> GOOD IDEA not to disable that magic CSS tweak that does the 'click to >> flash' trick, actually I started using a similar flash blocker on my >> main machine and life is a lot smoother). Obviously very long, >> complicated pages can also cause memory issues, a good example is >> using Google Reader, it works well for about 15min of my usual reading >> habit before I'm in danger of a lockup. >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> --Gary >> >> > -- >> > = >> > ====================================================================== >> > The scum also rises. -- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson >> > = >> > ====================================================================== >> > Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akons...@sbcglobal.net >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Devel mailing list >> > Devel@lists.laptop.org >> > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> Devel@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> >> >
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