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geekmaster · 06-17-2012, 04:24 PM

We are getting more reports in the dev corner (including PMs) of K5 (touch) having more cases of PDF files that report "out of memory" errors for some PDF files. Apparently the new 5.1.0 firmware has even LESS available free RAM. This would be less of a problem if there was some virtual memory available, but it is not safe to store virtual memory swap files on flash devices due to premature write wear problems (especially on nearly-full devices which have little space left for write wear-levelling). We can just look forward to this problem getting worse with time, as new firmware versions grow in size.

The new K4 4.1.0 firmware is also larger and uses more RAM.

Unfortunately, you cannot easily increase the RAM, because the CPU is limited to 256MB.

06-17-2012, 04:24 PM	#41
geekmaster Carpe diem, c'est la vie. Posts: 6,433 Karma: 10773670 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Multiverse 6627A Device: K1 to PW3	We are getting more reports in the dev corner (including PMs) of K5 (touch) having more cases of PDF files that report "out of memory" errors for some PDF files. Apparently the new 5.1.0 firmware has even LESS available free RAM. This would be less of a problem if there was some virtual memory available, but it is not safe to store virtual memory swap files on flash devices due to premature write wear problems (especially on nearly-full devices which have little space left for write wear-levelling). We can just look forward to this problem getting worse with time, as new firmware versions grow in size. The new K4 4.1.0 firmware is also larger and uses more RAM. Unfortunately, you cannot easily increase the RAM, because the CPU is limited to 256MB.