Hi, ext Dawid Lorenz wrote:
Is this only my N900 @PR1.1 or others also experience overall device sluggishness after ~2-3 days of uptime? There is semi-identified problem with hildon-home hogging CPU time for few seconds on each wakeup from standby [1], however that's "fixable" by killall hildon-home and re-adding widgets to desktop. Most likely case is memory leak in one of the widgets on desktop, however that hasn't been determined yet. Apart from hildon-home, I've noticed my N900 is still misbehaving after few days since last reboot. Namely, it becomes very unresponsive at times, to the point where -- for example -- I can hear incoming call ringtone, but screen doesn't really catch-up, so I don't even have opportunity to see who is calling, not to mention taking that call. This is obviously quite annoying, however I am very far away from taking "reboot your device every second day" advice as a solution.
When this happens, do you see "SGX" mentioned in "dmesg" output?
What I am suspecting here is swap (over)usage. It does only seem to grow over time, rather than going down when I close unused apps, for example. Physical RAM, on the other hand, usually sticks around 180-200MB of use, regardless of apps opened in the background. I've seen browserd takes quite a lot of memory resources, so I usually do /etc/init.d/tablet-browser-daemon.init restart, which seems to release some memory, but not for very long tough. Other thing I've noticed is system swappiness value, which is 100 by default. What I've learned [2] is that 100 value favours moving stuff to swap space quite frequently, which makes some sort of sense with experience I've got. I have rebooted my N900 today and set swappiness value to 60 by echo 60 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, however I am not sure whether that's right way of setting this (article refers to /etc/sysctl.conf file which simply doesn't exists in my rootfs, or perhaps is stored elsewhere). Anyway, I am going to observe how system overall performance evolves over next couple of days.
If it's as low as on desktop, you can get hitches while using the device. Something below 100 may be better though.
Does anyone experience similar sort of problem in his/hers N900 and has some thoughts on the topic? Any input would be appreciated. Apart from "reboot" solution, of course. [1] https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8723 [2] http://www.heysky.net/digest/2008/07/linux-memory-management.html -- Dawid 'evad' Lorenz * http://adl.pl null://real men never use Gmail
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