Thread: N900 battery life questions, issues, scenarios
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marauder is offline marauder
2009-11-30 , 20:26
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#269
Originally Posted by quark View Post
That's the point: the problem appears with a wifi connection, and then stays until a reboot is done.

@marauder: please as you stated above now the device is running quite well with normal battery duration, so can you share your free ram as reported by top command in a shell?

I'm convinced the device has some problem with wifi, during "high battery drain" periods I fell it become quite warm.


quark, the top command in xterm gives the following:
Mem: 194344K used, 51204K free, 0K shrd, 2004Kbuff, 59652K

but I stopped caring about ram usage as sljonson said that:

"The kernel will tend to use most of the memory available as the system runs.The expect stuff will be application code and data pages. The kernel will use the rest for file buffers so it can avoid having to access (abysmally) slow disk (as compared to RAM). The kernel is quite deft at managing RAM. RAM is a very slight battery drain as compared to te CPU running at full speed, or the WIFI or Ceullar radios."

I've read that more than once. N900 will usually use all available RAM.