Re: Regarding temporary "pauses", perhaps due to using an SD card with an XO

2012-10-15 Thread Chris Marshall
If I umount the SD card then the hang/pause-s stop. Of course, I than have no extra storage space for the XO. It would seem that there may be a system or kernel call that gets blocked by something related to the SD card mount. On 10/13/12, Chris Marshall wrote: > I too have observed increasingl

Re: Re: Regarding temporary ''pauses'', perhaps due to using an SD card with an XO

2012-10-14 Thread forster
I too have noticed pauses on my 1.5 and they are worse than they used to be. The mouse cursor is still active during the pause. Tony > I too have observed increasingly often "pauses" > on my XO but have had no idea how or where to > start to debug the problem. > > One thought I had is that the

Re: [support-gang] Regarding temporary "pauses", perhaps due to using an SD card with an XO

2012-10-13 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Sat, 10/13/12, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > From: Mikus Grinbergs > Subject: [support-gang] Regarding temporary "pauses", perhaps due to using an > SD card with an XO > To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to "help AT > laptop.org"

Re: Regarding temporary "pauses", perhaps due to using an SD card with an XO

2012-10-13 Thread Chris Marshall
I too have observed increasingly often "pauses" on my XO but have had no idea how or where to start to debug the problem. One thought I had is that the swap file on the SD card is the source of the problem (somehow) but I still have the pernicious/persistent hanging even without using the swapfile

Regarding temporary "pauses", perhaps due to using an SD card with an XO

2012-10-13 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Lately there has been discussion about using an SD card to expand the "storage" capability of the XO. [For instance, discussion of when an XO functions as a server, having it keep its database on an SD card.] What I want to mention is that I experience occasional "pauses" on my XO systems (ea