Stability and Memory Pressure in 8.2

[Tomeu Vizoso]

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?

Regards,

Tomeu