[IAEP] DC Photo Jam 2 - New batch of photos of SoaS running onnetbooks

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 04:48, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:
>
> On Mar 16, 2009, at 4:32 PM, Kathy Pusztavari wrote:
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>> Adorable.  You indeed picked the best of the bunch.
>>
>> This may have been answered somewhere else but I'm wondering if
>> SoaS is faster on other processors than on the XO1.  I find the XO
>> to be terribly slow.  Has it been tested on the Classmate 3 - if
>> so, is it fast?
>
> I would expect it to be faster on other processors.

I don't think the processor is the biggest factor. In my profiling, I
have seen bigger impact from jffs2/nand, the graphics subsystem and
the lack of swap.

If you run Soas-1 on a sd card with some swap space, you will see how
the XO feels much faster.

Regards,

Tomeu

> Please remember that the XO uses the processor that gave OLPC
> the most performance/power available 1.5 years ago.   Technology
> has changed, and we are refreshing the XO to provide more
> performance at the same power level.    Other netbooks are
> power hogs compared to the XO!
>
> This probably doesn't matter to you, but in many OLPC deployments,
> the amount of power consumed by the laptop is inversely related to
> the amount of time a student can use their laptop per week.
>
> Still, as Marvin Minsky reminded me the other day, we used to have
> much more responsive UIs running on processors with less than a
> tenth the processing power...
>
> wad
>
>> -Kathy
>>
>> From: iaep-bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto:iaep-
>> bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Mike Lee
>> Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 6:40 PM
>> To: iaep; Marketing at lists.sugarlabs.org; Sugar Devel; Christian
>> Marc Schmidt
>> Cc: Christoph Derndorfer; wayan
>> Subject: [IAEP] DC Photo Jam 2 - New batch of photos of SoaS
>> running onnetbooks
>>
>> Following up on a request from Walter and Christian a couple weeks
>> ago, I finally got a photo session going this evening to capture
>> some shots of SoaS running on an Asus EeePC 701 and Intel Classmate
>> 2--complete with child! An added bonus was having Sasche Silbe come
>> up on Chat on the Classmate 2 while I was shooting, so I was able
>> to cache some colorful Chat lines. The images are high resolution,
>> reproduction quality and set to CC. If you have any problems
>> retrieving from Flickr, let me know. If you are not a contact of
>> mine, I will have to "Friend" you to allow access to the high rez.
>>
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/sets/72157615270454953/
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> http://www.olpclearningclub.org
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mikelee
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