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dxitt 2008-10-24 06:43
How to disable modest and its demon process?
 
I found Gmail mobile works great for me and there's no need to use modest. To save ram and cpu cycles, I'd like disable modest process that usually takes up 2MB ram. Any help will much appreciated.

icebox 2008-10-24 07:54
Re: How to disable modest and its demon process?
 
Install maemo-controll from (i think) maemo-extras. It will add additional control panel options. Go to control panel, launch Services and you'll se a list of running tasks. Clicking on Hide system services will show all running services on the tablet. Taping on Running will togle the process on/off, removing the checkmark in front of the service will prevent it from running at boot. It's a good place to disable metalayer crawler if you don't need it.

Be careful what you disable, you might render your tablet unusable. Check and double check that you know what a process does, before you disable it.

dxitt 2008-10-25 18:03
Re: How to disable modest and its demon process?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by icebox (Post 236262)
Install maemo-controll from (i think) maemo-extras. It will add additional control panel options. Go to control panel, launch Services and you'll se a list of running tasks. Clicking on Hide system services will show all running services on the tablet. Taping on Running will togle the process on/off, removing the checkmark in front of the service will prevent it from running at boot. It's a good place to disable metalayer crawler if you don't need it.

Be careful what you disable, you might render your tablet unusable. Check and double check that you know what a process does, before you disable it.
Thanks for the info! I installed maemo-controll, but modest wasn't in the list of running services... I can see the process is still running. So, it must be launched in some other ways?

tso 2008-10-25 18:11
Re: How to disable modest and its demon process?
 
supposedly, modest keeps a process running if one has set automated mail check.

i have also found that modest may stay around in memory if hitting refresh without a currently active connection to the net (its not a sure thing tho).

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3610

but given its such a "minor" issue, and nokia seems to be going full speed towards fremantle, i fear its unlikely to get fixed.

Jaffa 2008-10-25 18:29
Re: How to disable modest and its demon process?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by tso (Post 236611)
supposedly, modest keeps a process running if one has set automated mail check.
It shouldn't do: that'd be a bug. It uses the alarm framework to wake itself up at the (user-)configured interval.

tso 2008-10-25 19:58
Re: How to disable modest and its demon process?
 
guess it shows what i know about the inner workings of modest then...

maacruz 2009-04-05 12:38
Re: How to disable modest and its demon process?
 
I want to do the same, I never have used modest.
I still haven't found where modest is started, but it can be stopped with "start-stop-daemon --stop --name modest"


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