Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

hi!

this gui lubricating app boosts my GPS in getting a locked and accurate location.....awesome!

and one more thing, in downloading files let's say using transmission, i find having a hick-up when activating all the proposed settings in swappolube. so i need to deactivate it before starting any downloads specially gigantic files.

but that is not so good! the app rocks and i want that to persist! so my kneel down question is what settings i need to change, enable or disable in swappolube during a download?

thanks....:)

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

Swapo is supposed to be tuning the system at startup. Why change stuff on the run?

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

apologies......i was just wondering if the swappolube's settings makes some of my video streamings and torrent downloads to cause some issues (like longer buffer time and hashing/verifying of local data).

thanks, :)

EDIT: my fault, not to do with swappolube

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

Not by itself, no, but it does tweak settings that affect buffer sizees and the such, likely forcing a flush. As long as the OS flushes data, all writes are queued, resulting in a "hickup" for everyone with a disk IO in progress. Since torrent apps do that for a living, it seems likely. you can try a sync before but that just moved the stall.

Little way around it, I suppose.

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

I wonder if you could implement a function to save and load different presets... Would be nice to have.

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

I'm just lazy - still on holdays :)

Will make something about it most probably next week.

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

Sounds good :)
But first enjoy your holidays.

thx in advance ;)

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

looking forward.......happy holidays...

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

i agree......i did lower my connection settings (like minimizing peers to 30 each torrent and 100 overall torrents) and worked fine.

it was my own settings on transmission that was making the crazy effects....thanks

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

noticed an update available in extras, what does it bring?

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

Easy: So you can see what effects the changes have right then and there. Having to reboot between kernel tweaks is the winblows way...

Another way to say this is that Swappolube's default settings are not necessarily the correct settings for how you run your particular N900, so you may want to tweak further yourself. Seeing the effects immediately upon committing them to the kernel helps tremendously and is the whole point of being able to change kernel parameters on the fly, whether on a semi-embedded device like the N900 or a full-blown PC (where all of these settings also exist, but I personally have yet to play with them).

That brings up a good question, actually: how come there isn't a Swappolube for all the other Linux distros out there?

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

read here: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=311

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

Just finished the interface!
Still need some code to provide the new functionality but I'm really happy with it and wanted to give you a little preview.

Hope you like it.

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

I want to use this opportunity to say that your project is awesome and I'm really thankful for it. (Installed it yesterday, It changed everything!)

:D

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

Uploaded an updated version (1.0-1) in extras-devel

This update includes the requested functionality, i.e. the storage of custom configurations, and a redesign of the GUI.

Changelog:

• Added new option to store and display a custom configuration.
• Several GUI improvements (buttons moved to the left, description includes default values, ...).
• Clean-up of code; better naming of variables.
• Changes in the postinstall script to include the custom settings file.
• Bump version number - app is now feature complete.

As usual, will wait before promoting it also to the testing repo for a couple of days.
In any case,please let me know if you find something wrong/misbehaving or/and more ideas for additions you'd like to see.

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

nice! I'm going to check it out.

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

Would be great if you could add to the GUI the ability to change more values as explained here:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=69973

You could, for example, provide a 'Default', 'Safe' and 'Fastest' goroup of values to select from.

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

Default is safe, so there's default and recommended.

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

Well I meant 'Safe' as a safe improvement over default.

Anyway, there are some keys that could be added such as:

/proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes
/sys/block/mmcblk0/queue/nr_requests
/sys/block/mmcblk1/queue/nr_requests

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

The new version 1.1-1 does not work. it doesn't start ?
solutions???

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

Uploaded an updated version (1.1-2) in extras-devel

This update includes 3 new options for testing the interactivity improvements under high I/O load discussed in http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=69973

- The new options are not part of the "proposed" values
- The MMC1 settings will appear disabled if an external memory is not installed.

As usual, will wait before promoting it also to the testing repo for a couple of days.
In any case,please let me know if you find something wrong/misbehaving or/and more ideas for additions you'd like to see.

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

In the latest version you'll have these options and you can save the configuration discussed in the other thread as a custom one.

I don't plan to have a 'safe' config for the simple reason that I cannot really judge what is safe and what is not.


please wait for the update (1.1-2) which fixes that issue. Thanks for the report.

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

same here. v1.1-1 doesn't work.
waiting for v 1.1-2

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

The new values in version 1.1-2

/proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes
/sys/block/mmcblk0/queue/nr_requests
/sys/block/mmcblk1/queue/nr_requests

seem not to be stored correctly. They're always set to default when I reboot my N900.

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

Thanks for the report.

Version 1.1-3 has been uploaded with a fix for that (should be available in ~30 min).

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

Yes. Works great now. Thanks for the quick update. :-)

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

Thank you for this most usefull application.

When working with it, I was wondering if it would not be more appropriate to have this application "sitting" in the control panel, instead of its current location, in the appliation list?

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

Next version in devel will have a button additionally at the Power Key Menu.
If people like it will keep it.

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

Could you make a separate package?

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

Thanks for your instructions on how to do this. I saw you post in some thread but couldn't find it again to say thanks.

Instead of separate package I think will make it an option.
Shouldn't be hard..

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

Really love this App but love theme customizer just as much and can't bear to remove theme customizer to update swappolube!:(

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

What's the problem? Is there a conflict somewhere?

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

when I try to update it through Fam. It comes up with a window confirming the upgrade and it also confirms that theme customizer is going to be removed even though I've not requested this!

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

I had a similar issue when trying to update swappolube. I got a message saying that rtcom-acccounts-plugin-facebook was going to be removed. Anways I upgraded swappolube to the latest version & then reinstalled rtcom-accounts-plugin-facebook via the terminal.

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

This sounds similar to issue: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11831
If you have CSSU installed and you are affected by this issue then no matter what you try to install or update it will try to remove few used packages. It is irrelevant to the Swappolube package.

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

Thanks for this great program!

I just updated it yesterday, and I had no issues despite having Theme Customizer and CSSU installed.

I'm not too crazy about the button in the power button menu. I can't really see any point to have it there, because I think Swappolube isn't exactly something we all use daily. I don't have CSSU there yet, unlike that screenshot, and I hope it won't appear there as well. If the power menu button isn't made optional in a future update, I'll either tweak the menu myself or implement swappolube tweaks the hard way :/

I think the best practice would be to put programs meant to tweak system settings under settings, that seems like the most logical solution to me. I've been wondering why Swappolube is in apps menu and not in settings :D

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

Uploaded an updated version (1.1-5) in extras-devel

This update inn short brings two visible changes:

• makes the power key menu entry optional and
• the "Delete Tuning File" is hidden if there is no tuning file.

Detailed changelog:

• Added a dynamic button in the application menu to add/remove the entry in the Power Key menu.
• Modified the application menu entry for deleting the tuning file to appear only when file exists.
• Added a postrm script to remove settings made by the application when uninstalled.
• Added new entries in the update script.
• Renamed a few files and methods to have understandable descriptions.

As usual, will wait before promoting it also to the testing repo for a couple of days.
In any case,please let me know if you find something wrong/misbehaving or/and more ideas for additions you'd like to see.

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

gr8 app...but one problem, the new version 1.1-5 does not start...

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

same here:confused:

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

Sorry, give me ten. Will upload the correction (apparently I have a settings file missing in the package).

EDIT: Uploaded 1.1-6 with a fix should be available in ~20 min.