[Sugar-devel] #2141 UNSP: Memory and CPU status indicator for the frame.

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 16:46, Sascha Silbe
<sascha-ml-reply-to-2010-3 at silbe.org> wrote:
> Excerpts from Tomeu Vizoso's message of Wed Sep 15 10:40:06 +0200 2010:
>
>> Basically, I don't see how this could work without being tuned to very
>> specific systems.
>
> I still don't see how it is tuned to specific systems. All measurements
> are relative to the system in use.

"Half available memory free" is relative but it doesn't mean the same
in systems with different amounts of memory and probably swap space.

Have people actually tried this extension outside the XO?

>> When people start complaining about their faces being always happy or
>> sad I expect you to help out.
>
> The face is a combination of several independent dimensions and can only
> be a very rough guideline, no matter how you implement it.
>
> And if the face is always sad, it's an indication that the hardware isn't
> suited well to running Sugar (or Sugar core takes up too many resources,
> take your pick). That's a fair assessment of the state of system
> resources, not a bug.

Make the numbers or try the extension on systems similar to the
examples I gave, you will see how the assessment isn't fair nor even
useful.

Regards,

Tomeu

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