Thread: Looking for N810 Governor CPU Policy Tips
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auouymous is offline auouymous
2011-07-10 , 07:36
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Originally Posted by jmart View Post
I still haven't disabled metalayer-crawler --- partially because I use the default media player sometimes, partially because I have been getting good battery life with it on, and partially because I can't find a generally accepted best method for doing this. Is one of these ways better than the other? If not, what is the best way? How can I re-enable it if I want to later?
If you have ASUI installed, even if you aren't using it, you can open asui-settings and toggle metalayer crawler from the services page. The top of that same page also allows you to turn off ASUI and only use SystemUI. The battery applets battery meter and wifi/bt won't work with ASUI disabled but I believe its cpu and drain indicators should still work. So having ASUI installed but not using it could be used for that limited applet functionality and/or the services/mce UI in asui-settings.

The manual way to manage metalayer crawler is to run these commands:
Code:
# start it at boot
update-rc.d -f metalayer-crawler0 remove
update-rc.d metalayer-crawler0 defaults 99 01

# don't start it at boot
update-rc.d -f metalayer-crawler0 remove
update-rc.d metalayer-crawler0 stop 01 0 1 6 .
And to start/stop it without rebooting
Code:
/etc/init.d/metalayer-crawler0 start

/etc/init.d/metalayer-crawler0 stop
 

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