[Sugar-devel] gcompris connect4 locking up / oom'ing

[Martin Langhoff]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> 8.2 on XO-1

Excellent -- thanks!

>> > * timing tuning for some dynamic activities
>> >  (overwise they can brick XO-1)
>>
>> Brick XOs? Do you literally mean brick it, or just crash / OOM?
>
> some dynamic games can eat lots of CPU

Right -- it'll make the XO unresponsive.  When you're in the
software/firmware/hardware world, "brick" means that a bit of hardware
has been ruined in (mostly) unrecoverable way. A bogus firmware update
would brick your XO for example. Hence my confusion.

> yup, it will be targeted to 0.82+ (and for systems that don't have
> recent pycairo

Version?

cheers,



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