Last Friday we conducted the first real-life "Chat on school server" tests at 1cc. We had 62 laptops connected to (and registered with) a school server. Every laptop was running the Chat activity. I gave 20 laptops to 20 people at 1cc and asked them to start chatting with each other. They did. Some even started sending drawings to each other (I haven't planned this load, though). We had this going for ~ 15 minutes.
The results are: 1. After several minutes some of the laptops experienced noticeable delays while doing chatting. I personally observed (and that was confirmed by other people) that when I typed something into the Chat's window, the typed text hasn't appeared in the Chat's window for quite a while. I even started getting thoughts that I had a malfunctioning keyboard in my machine, but this wasn't the case. See #8806. 2. Moving a couple of laptops ~ 60 feet from the school server (to the finance office near the OLPC's entrance) caused these two laptops to stop chatting even while they were still connected to the school server. Moving them back closer to the school server restored chatting. See #8823. 3. Two of the laptops stopped collaborating completely, while being located close enough to the school server and still connected to it. After the Chat activity was restarted in each of the machines, one of the Chats was in the "My Neighborhood" state, another - in the "Private" state, both laptops were connected to the school server, but none restored collaboration with other "chatting" laptops. See #8808. 4. Also, the "Can't close double clicked activities" effect was discovered in several laptops (see #8807). This was observed in some previous builds, then disappeared, and now appeared back in 767. Joe _______________________________________________ Testing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing
