[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Running Qt apps on the Nokia 770

[From: Greg KH]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 03:08:13PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
> On 12/10/05, Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello Leo,
> >
> > The only problem I see with this combination is the large footprint
> > but I think this should be the only problem for running QT apps on top
> > of the N770. However since the N770 has +64mb free flash and 64mb ram
> > it shouldn't be a real problem.
> 
> Incidentally, has anyone measured how much free RAM is available to
> applications after the 770 has booted up and with one of the major
> apps (browser or email) running?

Based on the way the Linux kernel manages memory (see previous posting
on this list for details), that's a pretty hard thing to determine.  In
short, it all depends on what your application wants to do (open loads
of files, sockets, etc, or not.)

thanks,

greg k-h