[OLPC-devel] Re: [One Laptop Per Child] #59: Marvell wireless won't run from LinuxBIOS

[Jim Gettys]

On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 20:28 -0800, supat at supat.eu.org wrote:

> To teach young students effectively I produce movie using .swf format on 
> my web at http://supat.eu.org/ for several years already.
> 
> Earlier movie that I moved out took 338 MB RAM
> (the .swf file took few MB only) BUt to play it will eat 338 MB.
> 
> My current .swf movie eat 2xx MB RAM.
> 
> Ofcause OLPC never ship with 338 MB flash movie and I never ask OLPC to do 
> so. BUT when students need to learn some thing effectively they must 
> access the web that always contain huge .swf
> 
> The most 2 famous web in Thailand namely http://pantip.com/ and 
> http://manager.co.th/ always contain 20 MB RAM to eat .swf
> 

You should report this terrible flash player memory usage to Adobe.  It
is a closed source application, over which OLPC has no control or
ability to fix.

Mike Melanson is the lead Linux developer, and is working toward a
release of Flash 9 in early 2007.  I'm sure he'd love to have a file
that causes such a memory leak in flash to work with.
                             Best regards,
                                      - Jim Gettys
                              
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Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child