On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Gary C Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary@garycmartin.com">gary@garycmartin.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 3 Mar 2009, at 20:14, Tiago Marques wrote:<br>
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On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Gary C Martin <<a href="mailto:gary@garycmartin.com" target="_blank">gary@garycmartin.com</a>> wrote:<br>
On 3 Mar 2009, at 16:35, Aaron Konstam wrote:<br>
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> Both 800 and 801 lockup completely fairly regularly. Once locked up<br>
> the<br>
> keys don't work . All I can do is hit the start button to turn the<br>
> machine off and then turn it back on.<br>
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> Am I the only one having this problem?<br>
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Hi Aaron,<br>
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Occasional lockups for me are almost always related to lack of memory.<br>
Can you describe what/how many Activities you usually have running?<br>
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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.<br>
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.<br>
Best regards,<br>
Tiago Marques<br>
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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.</blockquote>
<div></div><div>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).</div>
<div></div><div>Best regards,</div><div> Tiago Marques</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br><font color="#888888">
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The two that catch me out more often are Read and Browse:<br>
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- Read; it depends on the complexity of the PDF, but it (evince) is<br>
having to rasterize pages as you scroll and zoom about – a good<br>
example is trying to zoom way in on the pdf world maps provided in the<br>
default installed library, you'll soon run out of memory.<br>
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- Browse; Sites with heavy flash are very bad (that why it's a REALY<br>
GOOD IDEA not to disable that magic CSS tweak that does the 'click to<br>
flash' trick, actually I started using a similar flash blocker on my<br>
main machine and life is a lot smoother). Obviously very long,<br>
complicated pages can also cause memory issues, a good example is<br>
using Google Reader, it works well for about 15min of my usual reading<br>
habit before I'm in danger of a lockup.<br>
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Hope that helps.<br>
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--Gary<br>
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