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dfcamara 2008-07-06 01:57
Modest, maemo-launcher with 99% CPU and short battery life
 
I'm using modest (diablo) with one imap GMail account configured. I'm experiencing crashes in the background process, and what is worse, sometimes it stays at 99% CPU usage draining battery power.

I can't leave my N810 in stand-by without risking it off with a flat battery. To make matters worse, full discharge of Lithium batteries shortens it's charge capacity.

Below is the output of the 'top' command showing 'maemo-launcher' process (PID 7802) with 98.9% CPU usage, and 'ps' command relating PID 7802 to modest executable:

Code:
$ top
Mem: 112060K used, 14736K free, 0K shrd, 60K buff, 38544K cached
Load average: 1.07 1.05 1.05
  PID USER    STATUS  VSZ  PPID %CPU %MEM COMMAND
 7802 user    SW    70408  7075 98.9 55.4 maemo-launcher
 7935 user    RWN    1960  7917  0.7  1.5 top
  358 root    SW      776  350  0.1  0.6 bme_RX-44
 7328 user    SW    67292  7326  0.0 52.9 browserd
Code:
$ ps | grep 7802
 7802 user      70408 SW  /usr/bin/modest
I've seen other people complaining about maemo-launcher processes with 99% cpu usage, modest background crashes and shorten battery live in Diablo. In my case I'm think they are related. If someone knows of some debug procedure I can do about to help, I'm interested.

P.S. I did a reflash to Diablo firmware without restoring any backup and configured modest only once. Didn't install any software outside official Diablo and Diablo extras.

brontide 2008-07-06 03:08
Re: Modest, maemo-launcher with 99% CPU and short battery life
 
Unfortunately Nokia saw fit to release Modest on the masses before it was ready. All you can do is wipe modest out and make sure it's not auto-updating. I'm sure it will be fixed this year, but since it's been unstable since February I would not hold my breath.

Please search and vote for bugs in bugs.maemo.org so that your voice might be heard. Complaining here will likely produce no change in the status quo.

Bundyo 2008-07-06 05:02
Re: Modest, maemo-launcher with 99% CPU and short battery life
 
Mine eats battery too, but i still use it, mainly 'cause i disconnect my device whenever i'm not using it. Modest dies with 100% usage only when it checks the mail sometimes.

Rider 2008-07-06 07:37
Re: Modest, maemo-launcher with 99% CPU and short battery life
 
Dump this piece of crap and install claws mail instead. Works well, but not finger friendly.

yerga 2008-07-06 08:58
Re: Modest, maemo-launcher with 99% CPU and short battery life
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by dfcamara (Post 199764)
I'm using modest (diablo) with one imap GMail account configured. I'm experiencing crashes in the background process, and what is worse, sometimes it stays at 99% CPU usage draining battery power.

I can't leave my N810 in stand-by without risking it off with a flat battery. To make matters worse, full discharge of Lithium batteries shortens it's charge capacity.

Below is the output of the 'top' command showing 'maemo-launcher' process (PID 7802) with 98.9% CPU usage, and 'ps' command relating PID 7802 to modest executable:

Code:
$ top
Mem: 112060K used, 14736K free, 0K shrd, 60K buff, 38544K cached
Load average: 1.07 1.05 1.05
  PID USER    STATUS  VSZ  PPID %CPU %MEM COMMAND
 7802 user    SW    70408  7075 98.9 55.4 maemo-launcher
 7935 user    RWN    1960  7917  0.7  1.5 top
  358 root    SW      776  350  0.1  0.6 bme_RX-44
 7328 user    SW    67292  7326  0.0 52.9 browserd
Code:
$ ps | grep 7802
 7802 user      70408 SW  /usr/bin/modest
I've seen other people complaining about maemo-launcher processes with 99% cpu usage, modest background crashes and shorten battery live in Diablo. In my case I'm think they are related. If someone knows of some debug procedure I can do about to help, I'm interested.

P.S. I did a reflash to Diablo firmware without restoring any backup and configured modest only once. Didn't install any software outside official Diablo and Diablo extras.
Please, add your comments to a bug report. If it isn't exist, create one. It's the only solution to improve modest.

Bundyo 2008-07-06 11:16
Re: Modest, maemo-launcher with 99% CPU and short battery life
 
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3357
Vote for it.

jodyfanning 2008-07-22 19:45
Re: Modest, maemo-launcher with 99% CPU and short battery life
 
Nice to know I'm not the only one suffering with this. I added my vote.

dennylee 2008-07-28 04:07
Re: Modest, maemo-launcher with 99% CPU and short battery life
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by brontide (Post 199772)
Unfortunately Nokia saw fit to release Modest on the masses before it was ready. All you can do is wipe modest out and make sure it's not auto-updating. I'm sure it will be fixed this year, but since it's been unstable since February I would not hold my breath.

Please search and vote for bugs in bugs.maemo.org so that your voice might be heard. Complaining here will likely produce no change in the status quo.

Could someone explain how to uninstall Modest? I tried uninstalling in Red Pill mode but there are dependencies involved, so I am not sure what to do.

Thanks.

Andre Klapper 2008-08-15 11:27
Re: Modest, maemo-launcher with 99% CPU and short battery life
 
Now that the update version 4.2008.30-2 has been released, does anybody still run into this issue?
According to https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3357 it's fixed for one person, and not fixed for another.
Please avoid adding "I see this problem too"-only comments to the bug report, instead please see https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3357#c7 on how to provide more information if you want to help tracking this down!
Thanks in advance everybody!


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