On Wednesday 28 November 2007 08:33:10 pm James Sparenberg wrote: > 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 > Someone had beaten me to the punch on filing a bug. So I voted for and added my comments to bug 1842. If any one else sees this, first run the work around Austin provided (thanks) and then please vote for #1842 https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1842 James
