[bt-devel] Lexicon presenter

[Joachim Ansorg]

I'm sure we can optimize things in speed and memory usage. Please complaing 
periodically about this problem so I don't forget it :)

--Joachim

> 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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