Stability and Memory Pressure in 8.2

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:13 AM, S Page <info at skierpage.com> wrote:
>> On September 8th, Michael Stone wrote:
>>> Kim, Greg, and I have concluded that the instability we experience under
>>> memory-pressure in 8.2-759 and similar is the single "hard" issue that
>>> we wish to _attempt_ to address before releasing 8.2 on current
>>> timeframes.
>>
>> How did it go?
>>
>> I was going through my journal in 8.2-763.  Browse and Paint open,
>> accidentally started Read, suddenly the cursor stopped moving and XO
>> completely unresponsive.  I assume it's memory, but we never learned how
>> to tell.
>>
>> Over two minutes later the first page of the PDF appeared and *then*
>> immediately Sugar restarted.
>>
>> Just one datapoint.
>
> Thanks, Read has serious memory problems because renders whole pages
> into memory, regardless of what is the viewed area. Any chance the
> first pages of the PDF you opened contained big images?
>


I noticed some similar sounding freezes with Read, and it appeared to
me that the initial fit-to screen-width takes up significant amount of
resources. Of course, I'm not sure that this is the reason, but given
the problems we are having with zoom, it may be one of the
contributing factors (apart from the usual overhead of opening the
file and initial rendering of the pages)

Thanks,
Sayamindu



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