Thread: Modest, maemo-launcher with 99% CPU and short battery life
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dfcamara is offline dfcamara
2008-07-06 , 01:57
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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.