Re: seat belt prevents crashes
 

thanks for the feedback racky. yes the extra stability does come at a cost of slower operation of large programes. you could try downloading the source and try tuning it to your liking . there are only 3 variables and you can google for ther purpose.

Re: seat belt prevents crashes
 

2 ray. the script runs at startup you can check if its working by the following command
cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness it should echo 100

Re: seat belt prevents crashes
 

Hello smackpotato,

many thanks for your reply.

Actually swappiness echoes 100 on my 770, so the script seems to have set the vars, right?

I haven't done 'hardcore burn-in' tests yet, but I surely could live with a somewhat slower but stable 770;-)

After installation of seatbelt, the built-in Opera crashed once so far while trying to open a link from within a 'Spiegel' article (www.spiegel.de)

A later call of that same sublink worked fine, though.

This will give new hope for my 'good old' 770...

Thanks

Ray

Re: seat belt prevents crashes
 

Seems a great addition, but it sounds like it will probably slow down Mplayer, which I use very often.

Personally I find that Opera is much more likely to crash if you have put the 700 to sleep and woken it up again a few times. Therefore, a complete reboot once every day is not just good memory-discipline, it significantly cuts down the number of browser crashes.

Re: seat belt prevents crashes
 

will this impede mapper?

Re: seat belt prevents crashes
 

just watch out for that wsod...

Re: seat belt prevents crashes
 

I already had a WSOD. :)

(It happened when I took out the battery, during a crash when it would not reboot and I got frustrated with pushing the buttons to make it reboot. Needless to say, I never take out the battery anymore.)

Re: seat belt prevents crashes
 

I tried seatbelt and honestly didn't notice any difference in stability.

On Wednesday, I installed a patched wireless driver. See https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2006. Since then the three applications that usually crashed for me have not (browser, mediaplayer and claws-mail).

The original wireless driver overwrites 2 bytes of memory with 0 on every wireless use.

To try this out, download the patched driver, https://bugs.maemo.org/attachment.cgi?id=594

With root access
rmmod cx3110x
insmod ./cx3110x-on-stack.ko
chroot /mnt/initfs wlan-cal

If you want to make this permanent, you can create a script to do this on boot.

/etc/init.d/wlan-fix contains
#! /bin/sh
#

if [ -f /usr/local/bin/cx3110x-on-stack.ko ]
then
rmmod cx3110x
insmod /usr/local/bin/cx3110x-on-stack.ko
chroot /mnt/initfs wlan-cal
fi

Then create a link in /etc/rc2.d/S80wlanfix to /etc/init.d/wlan-fix

In /etc/rc2.d/ ln -s ../init.d/wlan-fix S80wlanfix

Hope this helps.

Frank

Re: seat belt prevents crashes
 

2Frank do you know if the hackers edition still has this bug

Re: seat belt prevents crashes
 

The hacker edition does have the bug to my understanding, the bug was just recently fixed though, it's possible that future versions may incorporate the change.

Frank