Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-25 Thread Craig Woodward
Eero Tamminen eero.tammi...@nokia.com wrote: Err? UBIFS used for rootfs is most certainly using compression. Wow... totally missed that. I haven't hacked around with it to that level, and missed it in the df listing some how. :P Yes, that does present challenges, but nothing that can't

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-23 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Craig Woodward wrote: Eero Tamminen eero.tammi...@nokia.com wrote: Compression can make normal ASCII data into 1/3 of its size Yes, wonderful. Is a default N900 using a compressed filesystem? NO. Why are we talking about it? Moot point. Err? UBIFS used for rootfs is most

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-22 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, Hamalainen Kimmo (Nokia-D/Helsinki) wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 11:02 +0100, Tamminen Eero (Nokia-D/Helsinki) ext Jason wrote: On a more technical, get-it-done approach, my problem with OOM was too much crap in /var/cache/apt/archive/ . There are two ways to handle this in a more user

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-22 Thread Edward Johns
On 19 February 2010 22:16, Craig Woodward wo...@rochester.rr.com wrote:  One good example for why is that the main package is really just a big dependency list of other packages to pull.  If beta versions exists in devel and you update with that repository on, it may pull a beta package over

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-22 Thread Craig Woodward
Eero Tamminen eero.tammi...@nokia.com wrote: Compression can make normal ASCII data into 1/3 of its size Yes, wonderful. Is a default N900 using a compressed filesystem? NO. Why are we talking about it? Moot point. And the issue with that is that package doesn't know into which

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-19 Thread Johan Helsingius
Craig, Again, from my understanding, the flash memory is split up because it's slightly different hardware wise. The first chunk is a higher class meaning it has faster access, while the larger chunk is slower. If that's true, it makes sense that it was partitioned out this way. You might

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-19 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext David Greaves wrote: ext Jan Knutar wrote: Another nice feature would be if the application manager, or a web interface somewhere, could tell you beforehand how much space an app consumes on /... It cannot, for several reasons. The size for the package included to the binary package

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-19 Thread Kimmo Hämäläinen
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 11:02 +0100, Tamminen Eero (Nokia-D/Helsinki) wrote: Hi, ext Jason wrote: On a more technical, get-it-done approach, my problem with OOM was too much crap in /var/cache/apt/archive/ . There are two ways to handle this in a more user friendly manner. Instead of the

RE: Not enough memory

2010-02-19 Thread Aldon Hynes
Of Kimmo Hämäläinen Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 6:23 AM To: Tamminen Eero (Nokia-D/Helsinki) Cc: maemo-users@maemo.org Subject: Re: Not enough memory On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 11:02 +0100, Tamminen Eero (Nokia-D/Helsinki) wrote: Hi, ext Jason wrote: On a more technical, get-it-done approach, my

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-19 Thread Marius Vollmer
Tamminen Eero (Nokia-D/Helsinki) eero.tammi...@nokia.com writes: AFAIK: * Application manager doesn't have caches on rootfs, but on the 2GB partition. * However, if you use apt _directly_, you need to tell it to use 2GB partition for its caching like application manager does. There

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-19 Thread Craig Woodward
Johan Helsingius j...@julf.com wrote: One that, as you yourself point out, can easily be fixed at no cost. All I am saying is that it *should* be fixed. If I'm reading some of the replies here correctly, it looks like they have done some of this in PR1.1.1, so this may be the last time

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-19 Thread Craig Woodward
Eero Tamminen eero.tammi...@nokia.com wrote: It cannot, for several reasons. The ... metadata is ... based on ... space .. which may be block based, unlike UBIFS. I don't think anyone is going to care if it's off by 5 to 10%, since that's already the case. The existing estimates are

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-18 Thread Gunter Ohrner
Nelson Ferreira wrote: 4. Allow for the package cache to be out of rootfs I did not receive my recently ordered N900 so far, but can't you transparently move the apt cache (and other larger directories) somewhere else using a bind mount? I'd assume most things in /var/cache, /var/spool (if it

RE: Not enough memory

2010-02-18 Thread Aldon Hynes
]on Behalf Of Gunter Ohrner Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 3:16 PM To: maemo-users@maemo.org Subject: Re: Not enough memory Nelson Ferreira wrote: 4. Allow for the package cache to be out of rootfs I did not receive my recently ordered N900 so far, but can't you transparently move the apt cache

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-18 Thread Craig Woodward
Johan Helsingius j...@julf.com wrote: one of the things that really put me off the Apple stuff is the fanboy religiousness. I'm far from a Nokia fan-boy, this being my second Nokia device owned ever. There are plenty of things I dislike about the N900, and about previous

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-18 Thread Craig Woodward
Let me preface this by saying that personally, I hope you continue to tinker with your device, in fact I encourage it _if you have the time_. It's fun to do, and does help the community if you're feeding back ideas and bugs. But if you decide to tinker with it, PLEASE don't come here and

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-17 Thread Daniel Martin Yerga
Hi. - Original message - Nelson, I must say I am really disappointed at how painful it is to do an update on the N900. I have to agree. I was especially annoyed by the crap on http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_5/PR1.1.1: There are reports that at least 42MB of free rootfs is needed

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-17 Thread Daniele Orlandi
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 00:40:28 Kahlil Johnson wrote: Hi I just got a maemo release on 16mb of update but when I want to install it says not enough memory, is there any notes with the update. I have 1.6GB of memory and 17 on the user space and a 16GB card available completely. I guess

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-17 Thread Christian Walther
Hi, On 17 February 2010 09:49, Daniel Martin Yerga dye...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. - Original message - Nelson, I must say I am really disappointed at how painful it is to do an update on the N900. I have to agree. I was especially annoyed by the crap on

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-17 Thread Johan Helsingius
Daniel Martin Yerga wrote: That's not crap, it's a very wise advise. If you want that everything works as it should, then only use stable software from Extras and Ovi. You will able to update without problems. Sorry, but no. I am only using stable software from Ovi and Extras. It still didn't

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Johan Helsingius j...@julf.com wrote: Daniel Martin Yerga wrote: That's not crap, it's a very wise advise. If you want that everything works as it should, then only use stable software from Extras and Ovi. You will able to update without problems. Sorry,

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-17 Thread Jan Knutar
On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Christian Walther wrote: Apart from that, I really can't understand why Nokia doesn't supply tools that allow to build clean packages, e.g. ones that install in a location of their own, without saving *anything* to a location used by the Maemo OS. All the

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-17 Thread Jan Knutar
On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Paul Hartman wrote: I found that I had several themes, which were all optified, but still take about 500k each on rootfs... After uninstalling all themes (leaving the 2 built-in) I then had enough space to install the update... Also for many people just

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-17 Thread Nelson Ferreira
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 15:47, Jan Knutar jknu...@nic.fi wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Christian Walther wrote: Apart from that, I really can't understand why Nokia doesn't supply tools that allow to build clean packages, e.g. ones that install in a location of their own, without

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-17 Thread Craig Woodward
Christian Walther cptsa...@gmail.com wrote: sorry, I have to agree with Johan -- it is crap. A living and healthy ecosystem consists of ... consists of keep track of your own ecosystem usage. I don't take a crap on my dining room table, just like I don't install random software on my

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-17 Thread David Greaves
Nelson Ferreira wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 15:47, Jan Knutar jknu...@nic.fi wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Christian Walther wrote: Apart from that, I really can't understand why Nokia doesn't supply tools that allow to build clean packages, e.g. ones that install in a location of

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-17 Thread Jason
Craig Woodward wrote: I swear I've never heard so much whining about a trivial topic in my life. You'd think Nokia was pushing a completely closed release from the yelping going on. You installed 80 apps from unstable or random repositories and sources, each time with a pop-up from the OS

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-17 Thread Nelson Ferreira
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 22:15, Nelson Ferreira nelson.ferre...@ieee.org wrote: I must say I am really disappointed at how painful it is to do an update on the N900. I went through this game on PR1.1 and now PR1.1.1. If Maemo or MeeGo want a shot at a good end-user consumer this really should

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-17 Thread Christian Walther
Hi, On 18 February 2010 00:01, Craig Woodward wo...@rochester.rr.com wrote: [...] I hope that what you're saying and implying is not the attitude of the general Maemo developer, because it would mean that I've really chosen the wrong platform. What I have to think about is the fact that the

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-17 Thread Johan Helsingius
Craig, If you wanted an iPhone, you should have bought one. Sorry, that is the most pitiful excuse I have heard for someone screwing up the partitioning. Yes, the N900 is intended for technically sophisticated users. No, that doesn't mean every single issue can be written off as user error. It

Not enough memory

2010-02-16 Thread Kahlil Johnson
Hi I just got a maemo release on 16mb of update but when I want to install it says not enough memory, is there any notes with the update. I have 1.6GB of memory and 17 on the user space and a 16GB card available completely. I guess it has to do with some root directory but I wonder where to get

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-16 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Dienstag, den 16.02.2010, 17:40 -0600 schrieb Kahlil Johnson: Hi I just got a maemo release on 16mb of update but when I want to install it says not enough memory, is there any notes with the update. I have 1.6GB of memory and 17 on the user space and a 16GB card available completely. I

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-16 Thread Tim Ashman
On Tuesday 16 February 2010 03:43:10 pm Andre Klapper wrote: Am Dienstag, den 16.02.2010, 17:40 -0600 schrieb Kahlil Johnson: Hi I just got a maemo release on 16mb of update but when I want to install it says not enough memory, is there any notes with the update. I have 1.6GB of memory

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-16 Thread Johan Helsingius
Nelson, I must say I am really disappointed at how painful it is to do an update on the N900. I have to agree. I was especially annoyed by the crap on http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_5/PR1.1.1: There are reports that at least 42MB of free rootfs is needed for the update. You have probably

[maemo-users] Re: Not enough memory to show a PDF file

2006-07-06 Thread John Leko
] Subject: Re: [maemo-users] Not enough memory to show a PDF file To: maemo-users@maemo.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 00:16 -0700, Israel Herraiz wrote: Hi, I have just installed the last version of the 2006 OS, and I am experiencing a strange bug

RE: [maemo-users] Not enough memory to show a PDF file

2006-07-03 Thread Karoliina.T.Salminen
, it might be a bug.. Br, Karoliina -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ext Israel Herraiz Sent: 01 July, 2006 10:18 To: maemo-users@maemo.org Subject: Re: [maemo-users] Not enough memory to show a PDF file By the way, I can provide the PDF file

Re: [maemo-users] Not enough memory to show a PDF file

2006-07-03 Thread Israel Herraiz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you could do is to enable swap on MMC and try again. If it works with the swap enabled, for some reason you are entering in low memory situation sooner now than before. Did you test it with no other programs running? I have 64 MB of swap, set up using the Control

[maemo-users] Not enough memory to show a PDF file

2006-07-01 Thread Israel Herraiz
Hi, I have just installed the last version of the 2006 OS, and I am experiencing a strange bug with the PDF reader. I could see this file [1] perfectly with the beta version, but now with the final version it claims Not enough memory to show page every time the shown page has an image. It does

Re: [maemo-users] Not enough memory to show a PDF file

2006-07-01 Thread Israel Herraiz
By the way, I can provide the PDF file under request for testing purposes (it is not available if you don't have a IEEE account). -- Israel Herraiz | Libre Software Engineering Lab (GSyC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Universidad Rey Juan Carlos http://libresoft.urjc.es | Edif.