Re: [orca-list] Resorce Intensivity of Orca

[JOHN G HEIM <jheim math wisc edu>]

what do you mean, "burn through"? It is not likely that orca is causing 
some kind of hardware failure. Orca will run on machines where jaws or 
nvda will not but that is primarily because linux will run on machines 
where Windows will not.  A few weeks ago, I installed debian and orca on 
a laptop someone just gave me because it couldn't be upgraded to Win 7, 
much less Win 10. It was a tad sluggish but easily tolerable.



On 4/14/19 3:08 AM, Matt - Envrin Group via orca-list wrote:
> I'm curious, how resource intensive is Orca?  I'm asking because I
> went blind about 2.5 years ago, and seem to burn through nice, brand
> new Dell Inspirion's every 8 months or so.  Then I have a new cheaper
> laptop now, only cost about $600, and I can already tell I will burn
> through this one in about 3 months if I keep using it.  There's a
> definite lag when doing things such as opening a new browser window,
> etc.
>
> I'm running Linux Mint MATE, if that helps any.  I also know you
> simply can't run Orva when booting via USB, same as multiple times
> everyday when running off a HD Orca simply turns off on me.
>
> This is all fine, and I don't have a problem with any of it.  I'm just
> curious, is Orca really so intensive on the I/O operations that it's
> burning through computers this quickly?  I really can't think of
> anything else I'm doing that would burn through computers like this.
> I guess I have a local Nginx, php-fpm and mySQL install going, but
> that couldn't be anywhere near enough.
>
> I'm guessing best bet is to just stick with a SSD in the future>?
>
> Matt
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