On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:03:50PM +0200, Anders Rune Jensen wrote: > I'm the happy owner of a n770 and have been using it for a couple of > months now. One thing that came as a big shock to me at first was how > unstable the device was. Same. > I've had random reboots and also programs > crashing randomly (mostly opera and navicore). I've been running linux > for a long time on my machine at home and has never had this kind of > instability. I was wondering if it had improved drastically with the > n800. You could say that. The stability still does not match that of desktop Linux, but it's much better than it used to be with the 770. Used to be I had two unscheduled reboots per week, now there's hardly one a month. And even then it's usually when I'm asking for it -- e.g. downloading 100 megs of Google Maps into an SD card. The desktop sometimes crashes, but this doesn't cause a reboot any more -- the desktop just restarts. Here are the stats from the lifeguard: ~ $ cat /var/lib/dsme/stats/lifeguard_resets /usr/sbin/dsp_dld -p --disable-restart -c /lib/dsp/dsp_dld_avs.conf : 5 * ~ $ cat /var/lib/dsme/stats/lifeguard_restarts /usr/bin/maemo_af_desktop : 7 * /usr/bin/esd : 16 /usr/bin/osso_hss : 16 /usr/bin/ias : 16 /usr/sbin/dsp_dld -p --disable-restart -c /lib/dsp/dsp_dld_avs.conf : 26 /usr/bin/osso-media-server : 2 ~ $ cat /var/lib/dsme/stats/sw_rst 3 I'm not sure how to reconcile the 5 dsp_dld resets with only 3 software restarts, but this is much, *much* better than I had on the 770 with resets counted in the tens. > As far as I remember, one of the main reasons for the instability > was the low memory on the n770. This has doubled in the n800 so that > might help. I've installed load-applet very early on and I always keep an eye on the memory meter. If the RAM usage rises above 3 bars out of 4, I close some application. As a result I'm pretty confident none of the crashes I've experienced were caused by memory shortage. Cheers, Marius Gedminas -- Include me out. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20070523/9189ebfe/attachment.pgp
