#3335 NORM Untriag: Home view activity sector size

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#3335: Home view activity sector size
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  Reporter:  bert    |       Owner:  danw     
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new      
  Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:  Untriaged
 Component:  sugar   |     Version:           
Resolution:          |    Keywords:           
  Verified:  0       |  
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Comment(by danw):

 First off, if Etoys is one of the activities, then all bets are off
 because of bug #2976, which will be fixed soon.

 Other than that, when you say "a few activities", do you mean "2 or 3" or
 "7 or 8"? On my B4 it takes around 7 or 8 activities for the ring to get
 even close to full.

 See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_ring for some explanations of
 reasons the activity ring is inaccurate. Another problem not mentioned
 there is the fact that the kernel can swap out unused binary/shared
 library code pages to get more free RAM if it needs to. That's probably
 part of the reason you can usually start a new activity even when there's
 only a tiny slice of free memory. I wonder if some of the data in
 /proc/meminfo would help us with that.

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