Hi, ext David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >>>>> If I'm not mistaken, ke-recv is the thing that mounts SD cards. >> It does also some other similar things, but basically it should be >> idle as should hald-* processes. > > Thanks. I seem to get various processes eating immense amounts of time > and memory when the tablet gets into wonky states, but I haven't found > what *triggers* it yet. > >>>>> It >>>>> shouldn't eat >50% CPU for any longer period of time. Interesting. >>>>> I'd >>>>> check if the card were properly seated, and I'd check the filesystem >>>>> on the >>>>> card (I believe it's possible to corrupt a FAT filesystem and end up >>>>> with recursive directory loops). >> >> >>>> Thanks, will do. I think I'm going to reflash it (there's not that >>>> much >>>> to reconfigure), as well. Though I suppose I should check the card >>>> format first, on the principle of perturbing as close to exactly one >>>> thing as possible between tests. >>> Good idea. You could also try to pull the card(s) out and see if you >>> still get 50% CPU usage. > > The card checked out okay on windows, and the files all seem valid. I've > reflashed, and installed even less than before (I'm putting things back > one at a time and waiting a while, to see when weirdness begins). > > I haven't had one of the weird sluggish episodes (which is when I found > the various processes eating so much time) yet, but I do have the battery > running down in ways I don't understand. Also I'll lock the screen and > put it down, You should try using "Offline mode" from the power menu. Presence thing in statusbar uses WLAN now and then, there are also some WLAN APs with bad power management. If that doesn't help, then you could try closing all applications if you've left any open and disabling all Home applets. As you don't have really much 3rd party stuff installed, that shouldn't be an issue though, but if it affects things, we can go through things you had open/enabled. > and when I push power the next day get what I think is a boot > (does the progress bar go across the bottom of the Nokia logo screen for > anything except a real boot?). Only for real boot. > So far all I've installed since the reflash (with what I remember as 51-3 > of OS2008) is OpenSsh and FBREADER. I'm in the middle of a book in > FBREADER, so that's the key application at the moment :-). > >> Good idea. One could also check what "dmesg" says, whether it shows >> anything suspicious. > > Good point, should have looked at that before. I'll keep that in mind in > future (tablet is at home, I'm at work now). - Eero _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
