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

[supat at supat.eu.org]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Jim Gettys wrote:

> 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
>
> -- 
> Jim Gettys
> One Laptop Per Child
>
>
Thank you for your suggession.
BUT I don't think it is a bug but feature.
How can we play high quality movie from a small file w/o eating huge 
memory?

But if you insist that it was memory leak then I will sent the sample 
movies to him.

regards,
supat