Lockup of 800 and 801

[Tiago Marques]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:

> 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.

At least for me, I can't get more than 3 hours of battery with the SD card
in the slot. Have you considered adding a card for deployments, given how
cheap they are nowadays? May be advantageous in deployments where energy is
not that scarce(if there are any).
Best regards,
                      Tiago Marques


>
>
> --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
>>
>> > --
>> > =
>> > ======================================================================
>> > The scum also rises. -- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
>> > =
>> > ======================================================================
>> > Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam at sbcglobal.net
>> >
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