Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

Jay, try Alarmed with okhabin's version. Seems to work fine and the power button still works. Haven't had a major N900 jam yet to see how effective it is at clearing up, but I found I lost widgets after hildon-home was restarted in the earlier versions of the script.

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

Hi JorgeFX.
Tnx for all your work here ;)

I have a strange problem... using the script .. i obtain this :


Nokia-N900:/# sh refresh
: not foundne 2:
Your Nokia N900 is being Optimized
: not foundne 4:
: no process killed
: not foundne 7:
: no process killed
: no process killeddexer
: not foundne 11:
killall: cannot kill pid 5196: No such process
: no process killed
: not foundne 14:
: no process killed
: no process killedlator
: no process killed
: no process killed-ui
: no process killed
: no process killedaging-ui
: no process killeder
: no process killed
: no process killedssbook
: not foundne 25:
: no process killedktop
: no process killedtus-menu
: no process killed
: not foundne 32:
: no process killed
: no process killedenderer
: not foundne 36:
Your Nokia N900 is now Optimized!
Nokia-N900:/#

(I've renamed rhe script ..)... Where il the problem? :(
It seems that nothing changes o.o neither the hildon desktop restarts itself .. :(

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

Dany-69 please see my previous post about this problem.

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

I am fairly new to the N900 and Linux

I have used the following script 'optimize.desltop' in /usr/share/applications/hildon

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=0.1
Type=Application
Terminal=true
Name=Optimize
Exec=osso-xterm "sh /opt/scripts/QuitOptimize"
Icon=
X-Window-Icon=
X-HildonDesk-ShowInToolbar=false
X-Osso-Type=application/x-executable

an in /opt/scripts the file named 'QuitOptimize'

echo Your Nokia N900 is being Optimized
killall -q pulseaudio
killall -q trackerd
killall -q tracker-indexer
killall -q browser browserd
killall -q Calendar
killall -q osso_calculator
killall -q camera-ui
killall -q rtcom-call-ui
killall -q modest
killall -q rtcom-messaging-ui
killall -q image-viewer
killall -q osso_notes
killall -q osso-addressbook
killall -q hildon-desktop
killall -q hildon-status-menu
killall -q systemui
killall -q tonegend
killall -q mafw-gst-renderer
echo Your Nokia N900 is now Optimized! ;)

I do not get any error messages but I do not see the 'echo Your Nokia N900 is now Optimized message' at the end and I see no changes in the Conky page

Is all well or have i missed something ?

thanks

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

I love you :p
My english isn't good enought to understand what was the problem you described in your post... and looking at the code it seems the same ... but now it work :o
Tnx :)

EDIT: OMG ....the status bar has gone :eek:

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

I experienced the same once. It returned eventually. I just played some Angry Birds and after I returned to the desktop, it was there again.

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

A word of warning. While it may work just fine when, pardon me, killing every living creature (killing many system process, some of which are critical), there can be consequences. Temporarily losing the status/menu bar might be the smallest of them.

So, further advice: If you really really need to run this script, please reboot instead. Then find out which application(s) eat up resources, and complain to the maintainer about it, most preferably file a bug. That way the problem will be fixed instead of workarounded (inventing new words here) and the device can be used without tricks, to the fullest.

Still, the script has its use, if the system hangs or some sort. It's sort of "soft reboot". It's not all bad. I'm just afraid of killing 'em all.

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

@Dany-69 and @pycage
That happened because it was still rebooting. Maybe your CPU was still doing something else.

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

In a perfect world, that would be the nice way to solve the problem:rolleyes:. But, it is not a perfect world:(. I agree with you, but, it can be maybe 4 or 5 months before one or two bugs get fixed, maybe more, or maybe one week. Meanwhile, this is a little help:).
Like I said on this post: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...0&postcount=30
It will NOT fix the bugs that NOKIA should fix, but it helps

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

Hi JorgeFX,

You mentioned that you would soon be releasing a one-time script to optimize the N900 performance. Is that still on its way? What kind of things would this script do and what would it fix? Don't mean to rush you but if you can drop a note I'm curious.

I'm running your other script though I haven't noticed a significant difference. Actually the one time I ran it it slowed down my machine a bit but that's probably cause some processes were still doing some initialization stuff in the background. Will try to give some more useful feedback if I notice some consistent behavior (good or bad).

thanks!

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

Is anyone getting any real benefit from the optimize script?

I have set the script to run everyday at 5am and I have a QB button setup on my desktop to run the script, but my phone still runs like poo after 4 days.

I just did a restart now after 4 days and 15 hours because it got REALLY slow and unresponsive. After the reboot all was fine again.

So I'm wondering if there is anyone out there using the optimize script who's N900 is still snappy and responsive or just runs plain fine after 4-5 days without a reboot?

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

try to run the script from x-terminal and see if it actually optimized.
if you get the message like 'not found', look at JohnWW post.

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

My current uptime shows 13.5 days, which is much longer than I usually get. It's still responding well. I don't run the script every day, but rather when it starts to feel like things are going south.

It was getting a little funky last night, skipping and stuttering while playing a podcast, but restarting Panucci seemed to help with that.

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

I am following this thread now for several days and was trying out what happens to the system when running optimize.sh or whatever you call it.

First of all (again) This script does not restart anything and may cause an automatic reboot!

As stated several times, killing system critical processes may make your device reboot because of the watchdog which is actually the process restarting all the processes you kill if they are non-user ones.

Running the script in an easy way is

if you have it setup right, the top line should read

and there is nothing needed like

No "sh" up front and no ".sh" at the filename, the top line tells the system how to execute it. If you did put it somewhere else than below MyDocs you may need to make it executable as root by this command first

Then I started thinking about you people blowing it up... the script is bad anyway but extending it with additional "killall processes" stuff will cause the device stay at 600MHz (or whatever you OC people have set) 95% for several 10seconds to start all the bloody stuff you just killed. Doesn't this blow up to consume as much battery as a reboot at some point? Or even more?

You have a missing statusbar? This is cause there is still stuff queued to be started and the hildon-statusbar is not one of the top notches!

It is nice you know your way around with killing processes but please be aware that total n00bs are reading this and have them let a process in D state and they don't know what to do, if it is xorg in D state the only thing you can do is ssh to your device and reboot or pull the battery...

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

And now for something completely different, this is a script/command that will make your n900 run like a week of uptime. Useful for when you cant wait a few days to have to reboot the sucker.

<Fork bomb removed. Please do not post malicious code.>

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

The infamous fork bomb. :D

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

Thread moved to Maemo 5 / Fremantle.

The Nokia N900 sub-forum is meant for hardware-specific topics.

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

Hi, that post is old, in that post I was talking about this script. I'm working on another that you only have you run one time but it is not for optimize.

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

That is the right way to use the script:), only use it when you need it;). I mean, don't be miser, the N900 WILL NOT become more speedy just for running this script 100 times in a row. Your N900 is pretty good already! ;)

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

Yes, it could cause an automatic reboot if you are miser running it. If you run it only when you feel the system is slow you are ok then.

The answer is pretty clear here, NO, just try it and you will see. I challenge you to make a video showing the battery percent before and after running the script, and then same video but rebooting and that way we all can see if you theory about the MHZ at full load taking eating the battery is true. I already know it is not, like most of the people that use this script.

There will always be n00bs reading. How can you prevent it? can you control the internet? Just saying.. Still, GOD bless YOU:D

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

That would be "worked around" :-)

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

I ran it once to see if everything returns properly and disabled some things ahead... reboot

Challenge? I challenge you to send me back from future... read again Oh and when you are done with time-traveling please provide proper battery readings as well... as my battery remains on 0% for about 12h - reboot included... EDIT: found the proper tools

Didn't ask for it did I? Why are people all arrogant when it comes to true honest criticism? And please leave god out of play (my god does not bless people anyway), even the smiley doesn't help it!
I asked to keep the n00bs in mind who are reading this!

Make this script restart anything and we may talk again.

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

Hi JorgeFX,

Sorry to not be clear. I was asking about this new script you're working on. What exactly is it supposed to do and how are you progressing on it? Is the point to modify the N900 setting in such a way as to avoid persistent slow-down problems or does it have another goal?

Thanks for the optimize script btw. I don't find I have to run it much but I appreciate the effort you made in providing it nonetheless.

thanks

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

Agreed.

By the way, my uptime is 20.5 days now. I have never been able to go this long before without rebooting.

Thanks for a very useful script! For me it's not so much about saving battery but just saving the inconvenience and "embarrassment" of having to reboot my phone. Phones shouldn't need to be rebooted.

(blah blah blah it's not a phone it's a computer blah blah)

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

I am also very interested in that script (not trying to rush you, JorgeFX. Please take your time and release when you feel it is ready).

One of the things I hate about optimization / configuring is that what works well for one person or workload may make things worse for another. So I am very interested to see what JorgeFX comes up with. I'm hoping it means I don't need to bother trying to do it myself :D

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

This script is nice but it might reboot your n900 and even worse overheat and drain the battery due to kills!

I added sleep between every kill, now it takes more time but this will make everything to run smoothly.

Download the file attached, i renamed the file to refresh

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

Quick question...
Is this script better than just rebooting the phone? (other than the inconvenience of course!)
thanks

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

Folks: This does not "optimize" anything and the thread title is misleading. No kernel or user-space settings are changed.

The script kills all Maemo daemons. Some will restart properly, while others may not. It is far safer to simply reboot your phone.

While the intentions of the author may be good, this script is of little value.

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

I beg to differ. Since I started using this script (optimizing or not) I haven't needed to reboot. It is of value to me as I haven't had to discover that my phone needs rebooting by being unable to answer a call. As used to happen every couple days.

There seems to be a lot of fear-mongering about this script. Is there any actual evidence to back up the claims that it causes all sorts of damage? Or is it all just FUD?

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

You have serious software problems that you need to correct. This script is not your answer.
Evidence?
It is a shell script. A shell script is interpreted string text. Anyone can freely see its contents without needing to be a programmer.

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

The main problem with this script is that it bluntly kills a lot of system processes and applications (without even checking if they're actually running), which itself isn't entirely bad, but is a bit "unclean" way of doing it. There might or might not be side effects of running such mass-killall, so basically ymmv. Earlier in this thread I've suggested better ways of finding out which system processes exactly cause long-term issues with memory and performance, and killing those properly in first place, rather than executing tens of killalls in row.

Tbh, initially I felt fairly enthusiastic about this script, yet finally decided to not run it on my device, as I believe there are better ways of regaining N900's performance.

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

This is like a story out of the Winblows world.
Oh, the server is not working anymore? Just reboot it, that will fix the problem (NOT).. unthinkable scenario for mission critical unix boxes. And yes, my phone is mission critical ;)

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

Okay, what are those 'better' ways? :confused:

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

Search through my posts in this thread.

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

@masq and @memoryguy.

The other script is about tweaks for the N900 to run better and speedy. But remember, it does not make miracles! Most of the things it includes are tweaks that many have already on their devices, but the script is intended to be use for people that only want to do one click and nothing more;)

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

Oh, you are so smart, you ran it one and your device have so many stupid things that it did not support one little script. More than 70 people disagrees with you. I tested the script for almost 3 months, so please, one time reboot is nothing to be afraid.

Instead of crying and impose or require, why don't you help us to fix all you claim is not working well?
Is very easy to criticize and not to help.

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

Thanks for your comments, it makes me very happy to know I help:D

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

It depends if you have battery and time to reboot. For instance, if I you have to record a 30min video and your device feels slow and you have only 30% battery, my advise is to run the script to optimize everything. That way the device will be more speedy and you didn't waste your battery;)

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

Hi Evad, I understand your point, but I tested your method and it seems to be more unstable. I always lose all my widgets. Can you explain me what that does?

Re: Optimize your Nokia N900
 

What exactly do you mean? dsmetool way of restarting hildon-home? It works flawlessly for me, ie. I never loose widgets. Anyway, this is not what I only meant, I was referring to sp-endurance I mentioned in my other post.