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. --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 > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel