Thread: Some things I don't understand
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GeraldKo is offline GeraldKo
2008-04-13 , 23:07
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#95
Originally Posted by gigabites View Post
Ok, searched for a method to kill that sucker. Ok so this is a highlight to more whys:

- what the hell is "metalayer-crawler". None of the threads explain it adequately.

- why is it being a pain in OS2008? Why would something as stupid to drain your battery faster (and in some cases cause sd card probs) be added in OS800?!

- Why can't it be turned off in a simple method other than using cli? An average user wouldn't know how to do that. Gen. Ant says "find what is cause it" ... uh sure, how? most users don't know how. Is there a built in process viewer not cli?
What it does and why remove it:

"Reading through the forum, I see lots of people complaining about their batteries draining after flashing to the latest OS2008--it turned out that the buggy metalayer-crawler process was hogging up cpu/ram and draining the battery.

"If you disable the daemon from starting up, you won't have the problem of dead battery. However, the downside is that, as generalantilles pointed out, your built-in media player won't be able to automagically find your media (music, movies and whatnot) residing on your sd cards. You CAN still open your media files manually from within the media player. This is why I'd recommend that you disable the metalayer-crawler daemon. You not only save your battery, but also get more memory space and less wasted cpu cycles. On some forum discussions, some people have reported the metalayer-crawler seizing up 60 MB of RAM and 100% CPU."

and ...

"metalayer-crawler is the media search daemon of the built in media player. You can do well without it "

How (one way):

"Disable metadata-crawler
sudo gainroot
/etc/init.d/metalayer-crawler0 stop
mv /etc/rc2.d/S99metalayer-crawler0 /etc/rc2.d/K99metalayer-crawler0"

The whining part of your post I can't really address.
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Last edited by GeraldKo; 2008-04-13 at 23:14.
 

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