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== Measuring Responsiveness ==

== Measuring Responsiveness ==

We are trying to get a handle on what hardware produces a snappy experience, and what produces a sluggish but acceptable experience. For slow machines, we are curious whether they could be upgraded by adding memory (potentially scavenged from other donated computers) or add a USB 2.0 card (<$10).  We are imaging getting a good number of donated older computers and we are thinking ahead about how to turn these into acceptable computers kids could take home.

We are trying to get a handle on what hardware produces a snappy experience, and what produces a sluggish, but acceptable experience. For slow machines, we are curious whether they could be upgraded by adding memory (potentially scavenged from other donated computers) or add a USB 2.0 card (<$10).  We are imagining getting a good number of donated, older computers, and we are thinking ahead about how to turn these into acceptable computers that kids could take home.

Please report boot-up speed and how long it takes to open common activities for the 2nd time. Some of them are slow on the first load.  Turtle Art, Browse and Write are good ones to look at.

Please report boot-up speed and how long it takes to open common activities for the 2nd time. Some of them are slow on the first load.  Turtle Art, Browse and Write are good ones to look at.

If you run a terminal "dstat -at --output dstat.log" can be helpful.

Running <code>dstat -at --output dstat.log</code> in a terminal can be helpful.

== Program Members ==

== Program Members ==