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Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2011-03-10, 04:07
Replies: 175
Views: 74,333
Posted By nightfire
Re: Massive interactivity improvement under high I/O load!

You'll only notice a difference under intense I/O. Try writing a 2gb file to your SD card with the standard configuration... it'll tend to lock the device up. Then try it with these settings.
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2011-03-09, 15:55
Replies: 175
Views: 74,333
Posted By nightfire
Re: Massive interactivity improvement under high I/O load!

I just put my settings near the end of /etc/event.d/rcS-late.

I'll be releasing a debian package soon as well.
Forum: Applications 2011-03-09, 03:08
Replies: 33
Views: 11,185
Posted By nightfire
Re: [Announce] EBD - Enhanced Backlight Daemon

There will be, ya. I'm on a business trip at the moment but as soon as I get home I plan to implement a nice handy status menu widget for controlling its behavior.

Regarding keyboard backlight......
Forum: Applications 2011-03-08, 19:53
Replies: 33
Views: 11,185
Posted By nightfire
Re: [Announce] EBD - Enhanced Backlight Daemon

I'm not 100% sure, but try disabling "power save mode" under Settings->Display, and see if that helps.



Can you paste the result of the dpkg -i line?
Forum: Applications 2011-03-08, 04:32
Replies: 33
Views: 11,185
Posted By nightfire
Re: [Announce] EBD - Enhanced Backlight Daemon

I think I can make that work. It was my original intention but turned out to be tricky because a lot of processes adjust the brightness level on various events.

At worst, I'll implement an applet...
Forum: Nokia N900 2011-03-08, 02:45
Replies: 3
Views: 3,362
Posted By nightfire
Re: lightsense.pl: Auto-adjust backlight based on ambient light

Hey everyone,

I rewrote lightsense.pl as a proper daemon in C, and built a package for it. Details here:

EBD - Enhanced Backlight Daemon (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=70797)
Forum: Applications 2011-03-08, 02:44
Replies: 33
Views: 11,185
Posted By nightfire
[Announce] EBD - Enhanced Backlight Daemon

Hey everyone,

I'd like to introduce EBD - the Enhanced Backlight Daemon.

It monitors the N900's light sensor, and adjusts the backlight according to ambient light conditions.. a feature I was...
Forum: Nokia N900 2011-03-07, 04:30
Replies: 23
Views: 10,905
Posted By nightfire
Re: Proper vsync and reduction of tearing

Heh... I just noticed that. Looks like the SGX driver is closed source. How annoying.

I haven't checked in portrait mode but I will take a look.
Forum: Nokia N900 2011-03-07, 00:02
Replies: 3
Views: 3,362
Posted By nightfire
Re: lightsense.pl: Auto-adjust backlight based on ambient light

At the moment, yes. :) I literally threw this script together in an hour just to get some feedback on the algorithm.

When I write a proper daemon I'll find a system call I can use to block until...
Forum: Nokia N900 2011-03-06, 23:44
Replies: 3
Views: 3,362
Posted By nightfire
lightsense.pl: Auto-adjust backlight based on ambient light

Hey guys,

I'm working on a light sensing daemon to automatically adjust the backlight based on detected ambient light.

My work-in-progress (proof of concept, really) is attached, if anyone...
Forum: Nokia N900 2011-03-05, 22:10
Replies: 23
Views: 10,905
Posted By nightfire
Proper vsync and reduction of tearing

Hey everyone,

I've been spending the last few days trying to reduce tearing on pannable widgets (ie. photo browser) and the desktop.

I'm just starting this thread as a placeholder; as I make...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2011-03-01, 22:36
Replies: 175
Views: 74,333
Posted By nightfire
Re: Massive interactivity improvement under high I/O load!

Hey MT,

Mine's been rock solid with the config listed here. :/ I multitask heavily all the time and reboot about once a week for some reason or another.

I will admit that I stopped striping my...
Forum: Nokia N900 2011-02-27, 03:55
Replies: 138
Views: 39,571
Posted By nightfire
Re: HELP! My mates think my N900 is a piece of crap!

If you really feel like throwing it in the river, msg me and I'll buy it from you. :)
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2011-02-20, 05:06
Replies: 8
Views: 14,830
Posted By nightfire
Re: I/O nr_requests

It will...

I/O queues become populated after pages become eligible for flushing. So, it adds to the write delay. It's possible to have 128 writes queued up even if your dirty_expire_centisecs or...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2011-02-19, 05:06
Replies: 8
Views: 14,830
Posted By nightfire
Re: I/O nr_requests

Careful; the larger the I/O request queue, the more likely it is you'll lose data on power loss or if your phone crashes.
Forum: Applications 2011-02-19, 04:57
Replies: 1,387
Views: 455,768
Posted By nightfire
Re: [Announce] BackupMenu V2 - OS backup & restore | New version - Jan 28th(v0.61)

Hey Robbie,

I'm sure you've already written your own script for it, but if not, here's a simple one that anyone can use to perform an online backup, compatible with BackupMenu.

It does some...
Forum: Multimedia 2011-02-18, 23:06
Replies: 8
Views: 8,781
Posted By nightfire
Mediaplayer streaming buffer size

Anyone know how to change mediaplayer's streaming buffer size?
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2011-02-18, 22:50
Replies: 46
Views: 20,831
Posted By nightfire
Re: Striping swap to increase performance under memory contention

My post is not about adding more swap, it's about adding more swap bandwidth.
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2011-02-18, 18:18
Replies: 46
Views: 20,831
Posted By nightfire
Striping swap to increase performance under memory contention

If anyone's interested, I've been striping my swap across SD and internal storage for the last few days, and it's increased performance under high memory contention.

How's it work? It simply...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2011-02-17, 17:09
Replies: 175
Views: 74,333
Posted By nightfire
Re: Massive interactivity improvement under high I/O load!

Thanks akpoff.. :)

Honestly my dream is to have a true laptop in my pocket with zero artificial limitations. I want to be able to travel anywhere with nothing more than a bluetooth keyboard and...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2011-02-17, 15:47
Replies: 175
Views: 74,333
Posted By nightfire
Re: Massive interactivity improvement under high I/O load!

Damn.. I knew someone was gonna call me out on that. :)

The thing is, I suspect the I/O buffer on most MicroSD cards is big enough that we don't routinely hit the situation of distributed writes...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2011-02-17, 07:08
Replies: 175
Views: 74,333
Posted By nightfire
Re: Massive interactivity improvement under high I/O load!

It's not a question of cache pollution during bootup; none of that will survive long. It's that many programs/scripts (ie. bash and init) fork off the rest of the system and need to survive. And,...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2011-02-17, 03:25
Replies: 175
Views: 74,333
Posted By nightfire
Re: Massive interactivity improvement under high I/O load!

Never heard of swappolube... :)

In any case, like Mentalist Traceur said, blocking I/O doesn't result in a failure, it just means the process read()s, write()s, etc.. won't return immediately, but...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2011-02-17, 01:58
Replies: 175
Views: 74,333
Posted By nightfire
Massive interactivity improvement under high I/O load!

Hey everyone,

I've been using my phone as a wireless media server for friends (with Samba + wifi hotspot). While it worked brilliantly for reads, writes were causing all kinds of weird issues,...
Forum: Nokia N900 2011-02-11, 18:52
Replies: 26
Views: 10,900
Posted By nightfire
Re: 2nd generation n900

I myself, like many I'm sure, am perfectly happy with Maemo and have zero interest in Meego. Not to knock Meego; I'm sure it'll turn out to be great.

It's just that, for my needs, Maemo is...
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