Re[2]: [bt-devel] Lexicon presenter

[Brook Humphrey]

Hello fred,

Sorry to tell you this but the problem is probably your ram and cpu. I
own a computer shop and cyrix cpu's have a bad problem with crashing.
They usually get to hot and then the system shuts down. To make matters
worse A new fan probably wont solve the problem.

Sunday, December 24, 2000, 1:23:20 PM, you wrote:

fred> I have just finally been able to get BT 0.3 working.  I notice that any
fred> module including the lexicon opens and displays reasonibly fast.  If
fred> however I open the largest lexicon and several other modules at the same
fred> time the computer freezez with the clatter of disk thrashing.

fred> I suspect that when the size of the modules opened and the other code
fred> necessary to display the modules (parts of QT, the OS, KDE, and so on)
fred> exceeds the amount of physical ram then the OS starts paging stuff
fred> currently in use to swap.  Given that this is inherent in Linux ( given the
fred> same situation windows crashes) you probably will not be able to eliminate
fred> this unless a way can be found to load only part of a module data file, or
fred> force a particular part of the large data file (not currenntly being
fred> displayed) to swap.

fred> Of course if this is a RAM issue I should also be able to solve the problem
fred> by getting some more RAM.

fred> I have also run into this problem with Star Office 5.2, which has a number
fred> of very large modules which probably need to be loaded and used
fred> simultainously.

fred> The computer is a PC clone with a 133 Cyrix with 32MB RAM.

fred> By the way the presentation looks good, and all of the features I have
fred> tried so far work flawlessly.

fred> Fred Saalbach


fred> Joachim Ansorg wrote:

>> Hi!
>>
>> I think you know that opening a Lexicon presenter takes very long.
>>
>> I ask now you: How would you like to improve the lexicon presenter so it
>> still usable but fast?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> --Joachim



-- 
Best regards,
 Brook                            mailto:bah@webmedic.net


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