[bt-devel] Lexicon presenter

[fred]

Well the computer is going on 4 years old, and so far I have not had any with it
problems that I could not work around except with Star Office - which I don't really
need.  I do open the computer periodically and remove the lint from the fan and CPU
heat sink.  The kids games are another thing.  I have been considering adding RAM
(now that ram prices have dropped some) and might change the processor if I can get
one at a reasonible price (cheep).

My point was that under some conditions when  bible time is running and the computer
apears to slow down or hang, opening fewer modules makes things seem to run OK.
This could be important for the potental users of bible time that will not have the
latest in computing power.

Best Regards
Fred Saalbach

Brook Humphrey wrote:

> 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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