Re: How to improve the N900 performance?
 

What about the phone registry? I think it makes a difference in symbian (the time the history of calls is kept). Does it affect the performance on maemo as well?

Re: How to improve the N900 performance?
 

To begin with, is there any thrashing? Currently I have 148/239 MB of RAM used, with additional 114 MB sitting in swap. The high usage of swap is not caused by the lack of free RAM, but because the unused memory pages were dumped to disk to free up the space for actually useful data.

You can always also disable the swap if you're so concerned about it.

I/O wait is not CPU usage.

Re: How to improve the N900 performance?
 

I was also surprised when I saw all this processes in htop but then I saw also that only one process was actually active. So most of the processes which you see there dont use resources except a bit RAM.

If you dont like it then disable the ones which you dont need, but I dont see any process which is "useless" there.

Re: How to improve the N900 performance?
 

Vote for bug 7147 - https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7147

This bug describes that after playing video the video rendering daemon (mafw-gst-renderer) grows in memory uncontrollable and N900 kernel spends some physical time then it swaps mafw-gst-renderer out (see comment #11). That takes 10-15secs and you miss a call.

EDIT: vote for bug for faster resolution of it. Now it is still in UNCONFIRMED state.

Re: How to improve the N900 performance?
 

Reflash EMMC(backup all the stuff you wanna keep)
then flash the update(51-1.002)

i did that today after too many symlinks. works like a charm:D

Re: How to improve the N900 performance?
 

Sure, Ive just voted. So you say the only way to actually speed up the n900 is to freshly reflash it later meaning reinstalling all the apps etc...? That would be a nightmare as n900 takes hours to actually install even a single app, or even to update one :(

Re: How to improve the N900 performance?
 

WTF are you connecting over, a piece of string? The N900 takes less than a minute for most apps here.

Re: How to improve the N900 performance?
 

I get less than a minute even when I need to download about 200kB via gprs....

Re: How to improve the N900 performance?
 

Ok, I might have exaggerated a bit, but as Ive moved from N95 the installation of a 20kb for example was a lot faster (im not taking the download time into consideration) so I feel the difference

Re: How to improve the N900 performance?
 

One thing that fustraights me so much about some N900 users... Its NOT a SYMBIAN based phone, or an iPhone with iPhoneMacOS, it is an internet tablet running LINUX and should be treated as such.

The more stuff you put on a linux or windows desktop application wise, the more it will slow down.

Symbian applications are not as complex as a Maemo linux application, less lines of code etc.

If you want a superfast no lag device with no issues and perfect firmware from day dot, don't buy an N900.

Performance will improve over time as code is cleaned up and bugs are ironed out in future releases.