2006/1/28, Armin M. Warda <Armin.Warda at web.de>: > No, I think swap on a N770 is a plus for stability. I have been using > it for about 4 weeks now. > What I observe: if I have an OS crash or spontaneous reboot, then the > probablility of more of these unwelcome events to occur during the > next minutes is very high. But if the device ran stable for a while - > let's say a day - then the probablility is very high that it keeps > running without crashes or spontaneous reboots for several days. > Thus, on my N770 the OS crashes or spontaneous reboots really arrive > in bulks (no negexp inter-arrival time distribution, thus these can't > be independent events). > What I mean with 'spontaneous reboot': not all reboots seem to be > caused by real OS crashes, there seems to be a kind of watchdog that > automagically reboots the device if it notices an essential process > is missing or misbehaving. Probably you could turn this watchdog off. > But I think for an end-user - not a hacker - this watchdog is an > appropriate thing. i rather think that it could be problems like taking it from a warm place with a lot of humidity to a cold place, where the damp condenses and thus the weird behaviour. of course it behaves normal again after the electric circuits are dry again. this would also explain the "bulks" - it will keep on crashing until the circuits are dry.
