On Wednesday 28 November 2007 07:54:23 pm Austin Che wrote: > > On Wednesday 28 November 2007 07:32:20 pm James Sparenberg wrote: > >> All, > >> > >> > >> OK. Since I installed 2008 If experienced a marked decrease > >> in batter life. As in total IDLE time is around 1 hour. This > >> is of course not good. So I started looking and I've found that > >> even after a reboot something called metaplayer-crawl is running > >> my cpu constantly at around 94-98% ...However if i do something > >> else like say hit a key on the keyboard. It will play nice .... > >> release cpu and then climb right back up again. I can't kill it > >> it comes right back at the same high levels. In short. my n800 > >> is all but useless because of this. > >> > >> Is anyone else seeing this? > >> > >> James > > > > my bad that is metalayer not metaplayer. sorry. > > Ah ha. Thanks! I've been seeing the same thing all day with the > device being unresponsive and not much battery life. Now I > remember that I had disabled the bad metalayer-crawler daemon > on os2007 as it really takes over when you have lots of media. I've > just killed it again and the difference in usability of the > interface is markedly increased: > update-rc.d -f metalayer-crawler0 remove YOWZER.... I wasn't complaining before about the speed of the system But doing the above then a reboot and it's down right snappy!! Now ... off to bug land... filing time. James
