Is the system just scanning the content here? Why does it tax the unit like this? On 2/5/07, Gary Mulder <gjmulder at gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Eero, > > First off, thanks for such a wonderful device and developer community. > I have had my N800 for 5 days and have been loving every minute of > playing with it. > > Can metalayer-crawler be niced so as to not impact performance of the > system? I just loaded a 2GB SD card full of music and the entire > system was unresponsive for around 5 minutes. > > Thanks, > Gary > > On 05/02/07, Eero Tamminen <eero.tamminen at nokia.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > ext Laurent MARTIN wrote: > > > Any news regarding a possible fix of bug #978? Some explanations: on my > > > N800, metalayer-crawler is taking at least 80% of the CPU as it was > > > browsing the whole system to track any multimedia files. A temporary fix > > > has been posted on bugzilla (thanks!) but it would be interested to get > > > some feedback from Nokia people anout this... > > > If the responsiveness of your N800 is decreasing, you should try the > > > "top" command to ensure that metalayer-crawler is not squatting the top > > > of the list! > > > > It seems that the crawler can take CPU dozens of secs when large MMC/SD > > card with a lot of media files is inserted. However, eventually it > > should stop that activity. > > > > In the case where it doesn't stop consuming the CPU, the MMC FAT > > filesystem has been corrupted. If you get continuous CPU usage from > > the crawler without FAT corruption (say, after 5 minutes), please add > > a note about that to the Bugzilla (you might notify the mailing list > > too). -- Jonathan Greene m 917.560.3000 AIM / iChat - atmasphere gtalk / jabber - jonathangreene at gmail.com Gizmo - JonathanGreene blog - http://www.atmasphere.net/wp
