New Nokia Linux tablet packs slideout keyboard (LinuxDevices.com)

Posted Oct 18, 2007 18:47 UTC (Thu) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link]

> How does the browser do with the somewhat restricted memory?
> 
> I find the 770 tends to grind to a halt (or nearly so) on the occasional 
oversized page.

The main reason for this and the 770 browser crashes is that 770 has too 
little memory for "oversized" pages.  Swap can help, but swapping is 
pretty slow too.  N800 and N810 have 2x the RAM compared to 770 (128MB vs. 
64MB) and because the Maemo base system memory footprint is pretty large, 
the RAM available for applications is actually almost 3x larger than in 
770. You can open many more applications in N800.

The IT OS releases for N800/N810 should handle tight memory situations a 
bit better too.  More of the pre-installed applications 
support "background killing" (I don't think any 3rd party app does 
this though) and kernel denies memory allocations to processes 
earlier too, as kernel having too little memory makes everything very 
slow. Although Mozilla browser uses more memory than Opera at the 
beginning, Flash 9 doesn't use as much memory as Flash 7, and Flash stuff 
is the thing taking most memory on web pages...

I think Flash & Javascript stop if device starts to run out of memory, 
this helps too.