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

[Jim Gettys]

On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 21:26 -0800, supat at supat.eu.org wrote:
> 
> 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?

It is *never* a feature that a player consumes 100's of megabytes of
RAM, particularly for a small file.

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

Please do, so that he can at least verify the problem is fixed in Flash
9.

There is nothing we can do about it here at OLPC.
                                     Regards,
                                           - Jim Gettys

-- 
Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child