My experience of the race-to-idle on n810 is that some applications will essentially lock the cpu at 100%, with the device become unresponsive until it has completed what it needed to do, and we get back to idle.

Application Manager is a good example of this.

What would this mean in terms of a voice call? I am assuming that freemantle doesn't have quite the same gung-ho approach with rti, and will leave a few cycles ready so I can hit "answer" on the incoming call.

Have you beagle players seen anything to suggest the scheduler in freemantle will guarantee cycles for core processes?

I am assuming it is there, but this becomes more imperetive when we are talking about a phone.