Problem with Surfing

Not that I know of. You could try adding swap and/or reducing cache size.

Which version of opera are you using? I'm using 7.30, which is the most stable for 2.38 on the sl5500. Quickening likes opera 6.0 for rom 3.1x but I haven't got it to work on my ROM.

Here's some hints of what I do to increase time before the OOM. It may be different for your ROM, but is worth considering.

First, I always have images turned off unless they are essential. They use a lot of memory.

Second, I close all other applications I can before starting Opera, and also clear buffer space before starting. Check free buffer space with the "free" command. Opera will crash faster, at least on my ROM, if there's less than 1200k free buffer space. Try running "free" before and after to see what I mean.

Third, about surfing, I only use Opera when I have to, as lynx is so much faster. links browser is also good, but I find the display in lynx to be more user-friendly.

Fourth, I make liberal use of the dropdown menu in Opera which enables me to close all but the current page I'm on. It looks like a window with 4 panes, and I click on "Close others."

Fifth, to clear buffer space, I run the following before starting Opera:

free;find / -name xxxx; free

That tells me space before and after I run the find command. There are other ways to clear buffer space, but it is my favorite. What works to clear it very much depends on your ROM and what applications and files are on board.

Fifth, you could try tweaking the buffer memory stuff in the /proc/ file system but that's a tricky business, not something I can write about off the cuff.

Does any of this help?

sdjf

True, but swap can help if you want to go that route. It didn't work for me as I still didn't have enough free k in internal memory for intense sites, I think quickening said you need about 4 megs clear, and I need a lot of stuff on board.

The cache also sometimes remains taking up internal memory with some kinds of crashes. Again, it also depends on which version of opera he has.

...written by someone who pushes opera on the z to it's limits, lots of crashing experience. ;)

I find that clearing buffer space makes a world of difference. And, I can sometimes prolong a session without crashing by going out into my console, clearing some buffer space, and then going back to opera.

sdjf

Let us know how it goes. I agree with you about swap, although Quickening seemed to think it's okay to do. I tried swap on a cheapie expendable SD card, and my Z just froze up, IIRC. Not worth pursuing. some day I want a local server I can run via ssh. I thought Firefox was available for the sl5x00's, but it takes a huge amount of space, and SD cards can be soooo slow. I use dialup via CF modem.

sdjf