On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 12:10 +0200, ext Dawid Lorenz wrote: > > > On 20 April 2010 16:52, Dawid Lorenz <adl@xxxxxx> wrote: > I'd like to follow-up on this a little. Basically, after > nearly two months since launching this thread and moving my > N900 into much lower swappiness value (I currently have 30), > frankly I can't see much difference. What usually happens is > that after few days of overall performance gets horribly > undermined, probably due to more and more things getting into > swap space. Sometimes I struggle to take a call, just because > screen doesn't really catch up on time. Utterly frustrating, > so in order to remain sane, I simply have to reboot the > device, just in order to "refresh" memory. Not very > convenient. > > I did a test with swapoff -a today, which completely cleared swap > space, yet despite Conky reporting about 70'ish percent of overall RAM > usage, so with pretty good margin available, I couldn't launch any > application, as it has been kicked out with "Too many applications > opened" message. Is there some kind of internal maximum limit of > memory usage beyond which launching any app is refused? There is a RAM calculation done in hildon-desktop before starting new applications, to avoid extreme slowness in the system when RAM gets too tight. Perhaps the calculation does not handle this swapless situation well. See hd_app_mgr_activate() in src/launcher/hd-app-mgr.c. -Kimmo > > -- > Dawid 'evad' Lorenz * http://adl.pl > > null://google 'no evil' mail has taken away my random signatures _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
