Monday Ship Message, 2007-09-24

2007-09-24 Thread Kim Quirk
Ship update message for 2007-09-24 Schedule: This week we are going to finalize the build for Trial-3. We are not putting any more bug fixes in to the code base without approval from Jim or Kim. Jim is reviewing all the bugs from the blocking status through high priority to find the

Re: [sugar] Monday Ship Message, 2007-09-24

2007-09-24 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On 9/24/07, Kim Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The FRS schedule is right on the tail of this Trial-3 release. People who are not working on the few critical bugs left in trial-3, please start in on the bugs that have been moved into FRS. These fixes will need to be checked into a different

Increasing performance by tuning swappiness

2007-09-24 Thread Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves
Swappiness[1] is believed to increase perfomance by setting the amount of RAM an application may use before switching to swap. The following command: # cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness reports that the XO distro is using 60 as the current value. A specific value may be set as the default in

Re: Increasing performance by tuning swappiness

2007-09-24 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Any thoughts on this subject? Yes: we don't use swap. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Increasing performance by tuning swappiness

2007-09-24 Thread Dan Winship
Chris Ball wrote: Hi, Any thoughts on this subject? Yes: we don't use swap. Not quite; we don't have anywhere to swap *dirty* pages to, but the kernel can still swap out shared library code pages and stuff like that, because they already exist on disk so it can just read them back

Less Watts

2007-09-24 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
FYI: http://www.lesswatts.org/ -- \___/ |___| Bernardo Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \___\ One Laptop Per Child - http://www.laptop.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

[Fwd: + maps-pssproportional-set-size-accounting-in-smaps.patch added to -mm tree]

2007-09-24 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Cool! Andrew picked up the patch I liked. Andres, how about adding it to olpc-2.6 too? Along with the latest Memphis patch, it would give use us invaluable stats for those trying to reduce memory usage. Original Message Subject: +

Re: [Fwd: + maps-pssproportional-set-size-accounting-in-smaps.patch added to -mm tree]

2007-09-24 Thread Andres Salomon
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:51:07 -0400 Bernardo Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool! Andrew picked up the patch I liked. Andres, how about adding it to olpc-2.6 too? Along with the latest Memphis patch, it would give use us invaluable stats for those trying to reduce memory usage. Is

Re: [Fwd: + maps-pssproportional-set-size-accounting-in-smaps.patch added to -mm tree]

2007-09-24 Thread Dan Winship
Andres Salomon wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:51:07 -0400 Bernardo Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool! Andrew picked up the patch I liked. Andres, how about adding it to olpc-2.6 too? Along with the latest Memphis patch, it would give use us invaluable stats for those trying to

Re: #3631 HIGH First D: Need fullscreen mode

2007-09-24 Thread Eben Eliason
Well, some of our principles for keyboard shortcuts have been 1) treating CTRL-K as a primary shortcut for action A and ALT-K as a variation on that same action and 2) we've been trying to adhere to the (generally similar) shortcut paradigms present in Linux and OSX when possible. I'm not as

Re: [Fwd: + maps-pssproportional-set-size-accounting-in-smaps.patch added to -mm tree]

2007-09-24 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 09/24/2007 05:14 PM, Dan Winship wrote: The biggest problem the ring has right now is that it doesn't take into account the fact that code pages can be swapped back out to disk to create more RAM, and so it needs to count inactive pages differently from active pages if we want the

Re: #3631 HIGH First D: Need fullscreen mode

2007-09-24 Thread Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves
On 9/25/07, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm open to other suggestions for shortcuts, though. What about the F8 key, or whatever's the name of the largest dot key at the top of the keyboard? Right now, it doesn't seem to do anything. -Ivo

Modification of Public OLPC Software

2007-09-24 Thread big one
I often use Linux without any X-Windows, but only svgalib: mplayer, links 2.0 browser, mp3blaster, etc. On FreeDOS (Free Disk Operating System), I can use display, arachne, pppd etc. Because OLPC is sold to general public using Buy 2 Get 1 G1G1, is it possible to customize OLPC: 1. Disable

Re: Modification of Public OLPC Software

2007-09-24 Thread Mitch Bradley
OLPC does not have a conventional BIOS, so any software that depends on one will not work. big one wrote: I often use Linux without any X-Windows, but only svgalib: mplayer, links 2.0 browser, mp3blaster, etc. On FreeDOS (Free Disk Operating System), I can use display, arachne, pppd etc.

Re: Modification of Public OLPC Software

2007-09-24 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
big one wrote: I often use Linux without any X-Windows, but only svgalib: mplayer, links 2.0 browser, mp3blaster, etc. On FreeDOS (Free Disk Operating System), I can use display, arachne, pppd etc. Because OLPC is sold to general public using Buy 2 Get 1 G1G1, is it possible to