Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

Hi PipoXtreme,

any chance you have sysklogd installed?
And if so, there may be some debug messages
in /var/log/syslog.
Otherwise I would like to give you a version which prints
some debug messages on the console, so I can
trace back what could be the problem.

regards
nicolai

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

To check your idea I reinstalled Scout. Extra dev did effectively not eat a lot of root. Scout itself did neither, but the Scout queries do eat up a lot of memory that will only be freed after a reboot....Just closing the app was not sufficient. What to do about this?

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

I couldn't reproduce this. The queries can took a lot of
memory. But RAM not rootfs. And this memory should
be freed after the app closed.

nicolai

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

sysklogd ?! :confused:

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

i did three queries: my name, my girlfriend's name and the most common Dutch name Jan. Just to create an overkill in results.

Rootfs free mem dropped by 10 mb, usage of ram increased during query but dropped afterwoods just like you said. Available rootfs mem remains at 62 mb while before the queries this was almost 73 mb. after quiting scout Ram usage drops approx 20 mb, rootfs usage remains the same unfortunately.

Can't help it sorry...

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

What I did:
Reboot device, wait some minutes,
rootfs 66% free.
Start scout, make some searches with many results.
rootfs 66% free.

The other thing is free RAM. It is difficult to use this value if you
want to measure how much memory a program need.
There are many background processes. And it can happen
that the program triggers the OS to swap unused memory.
So you can have even more free RAM while using scout.

In the last 20 minutes the free RAM value changed between
8 and 32 mb (without starting any application).

nicolai

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

I can make a version of scout which prints some debug
info maybe then we find out what the problem is.

nicolai

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

Additional testing resulted still in significant drop of rootfs memory. However after a longer period (got a coffee) the rootfs is freed up again. So it seems to use a lot of rootfs but releases it as well after some time.

Other question: Is it possible to create combined queries like: all appointments with Lars in 2010?

In general: where are the votes guys? Scout needs them!

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

You don't need - friday evening I reflashed my N900 now all is perfect ! :cool:

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

New version with new settings will be released after
the competition is over.
Please vote for this app if you like it.
If you don't like it, vote for an other app,
but VOTE :-)
(Give the developers feedback!)

nicolai