Lockup of 800 and 801

[Gary C Martin]

On 3 Mar 2009, at 20:14, Tiago Marques wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>  
> wrote:
> On 3 Mar 2009, at 16:35, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>
> > Both 800 and 801 lockup completely fairly regularly. Once locked up
> > the
> > keys don't work . All I can do is hit the start button to turn the
> > machine off and then turn it back on.
> >
> > Am I the only one having this problem?
>
> Hi Aaron,
>
> Occasional lockups for me are almost always related to lack of memory.
> Can you describe what/how many Activities you usually have running?
>

>> If this is the case, do yourself a favor and by an SD card to use  
>> as SWAP. Life will be much better with the XO. If you have the  
>> extra $$$, grab one that's SDHC, class 6.
>> The Class 6 card will make the machine more responsive, although I  
>> use one Class 2(hdparm shows about 6MB/s though) and it's fine.
>> Best regards,
>>                                    Tiago Marques

Absolutely and thanks for the feedback, lack/absence of SWAP on the XO  
is the root of many evils. Though personally, I try to avoid things  
our target audience won't be able to use so I get the best impressions  
of problems they may be encountering – but for tech users, this will  
give you leeway.

--Gary

>  The two that catch me out more often are Read and Browse:
>
> - Read; it depends on the complexity of the PDF, but it (evince) is
> having to rasterize pages as you scroll and zoom about – a good
> example is trying to zoom way in on the pdf world maps provided in the
> default installed library, you'll soon run out of memory.
>
> - Browse; Sites with heavy flash are very bad (that why it's a REALY
> GOOD IDEA not to disable that magic CSS tweak that does the 'click to
> flash' trick, actually I started using a similar flash blocker on my
> main machine and life is a lot smoother). Obviously very long,
> complicated pages can also cause memory issues, a good example is
> using Google Reader, it works well for about 15min of my usual reading
> habit before I'm in danger of a lockup.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> --Gary
>
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