idea for running out of RAM

Tomeu Vizoso tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net
Mon Sep 29 04:06:00 EDT 2008


On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So UI changes that help make this clearer will probably be a good idea
>> for a 9.1 ... :-/
>
> There was an early sketch of a mechanism similar to the old Home View
> circle, where there was a space allocated to each open activity
> proportional to the amount of memory it was consuming. In any case, it
> is just as easy to make a bar graph as a pie chart...

Dan Winship explained the issues with this approach here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_ring .

Regards,

Tomeu



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