Thread: N900 generally slow and unresponsive
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Catacylsm is offline Catacylsm
2010-02-03 , 09:57
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Originally Posted by masq View Post
Thanks again for the update. I appreciate all the help.

I think I'm noticing a slowdown but didn't really get a chance to use my phone this morning and it might have just been a "wakeup" slowdown. Since yesterday however I've noticed that it often takes two clicks on the power button to get the slider screen when I want to wake it up. Ever get that?

I also had a crash in the web-browser (while opening a PDF). Incidentally I have my browser cache set to 40 mb since someone said that would speed things up. I haven't tried clearing my cache - does the "clear private data" button also clear usernames and passwords or just cache?

When you say you had 12 apps running, do you mean browser windows or even more stuff? Later today I'll try pushing the phone a bit to see if it slows down but the network near my office is not 3g so its hard to put the phone through its paces.
Yeah i think we all get wake up slowdowns, today is day 4 but i will report exactly when the 96 hour is reached, with regards to the double flick of the switch when in slider mode, thats a bug, fortunately not a slow down or an issue, when the screen decides to turn itself off, it doesnt lock itself in a sense, just powers down the screen (Maybe due to being in power saver mode?) but yeah if you hit a key the device will power right up straight away, (Although it may be worth filing a bug report.)

With regards to the PDF, i haven't tried this because i believe buffering the PDF files (sometimes rather large) could have a significant hit on performance when you load it up (so i normally save to device.) i will scour round for a large PDF and try load it up with the standard buffer settings. Private data, im not so sure about however it would make sense if it was all your passwords etc that are stored (I generally have used the remember me feature quite alot.)

Pushing the phone, i mean say, OVI maps, media player, camera, bounce, several internet pages fully rendered and ready to go, pidgin msn client, texting, my phone constantly has a swap file usage of 150 (its been on for four days so can't expect less then that) and ram is constantly at 50-60% because the swap file seems to take care of excess things, you can set the swap file settings around by the way, you can set it to transfer less if your performance is deteriorating too fast, it should mean that more ram is being used (picked this up from another thread though, not a clue how to change it?).

Today the device is feeling snappy (prehaps a good wake up) in the middle of the night at around 1:30 am i found myself with a bombardment of phone calls as well as texts (dont ask,) that was running circles around them tasks, and this morning it seems that it hasn't changed, the device seems to be functioning really well.

Ok so looking at terminal x top today, im averaging a nice1.1 to 3.3 on xorg, lathough hildon status menu seems a bit more active, and osso-xterm, these are both using 0.7, averaging a 3.1 to 3.7 CPU load today, slightly higher but i imagine that it will shrink throughout the day as the device is used.

Soulfarmer, i believe the swap memory is just like page filing, say if your running a windows PC, and you have your machine set up for heavy page filing, your read and write speed will degrade the further it fulls up (ios loads etc) i believe this is the exact same case.

I hope this helps on our journey to speed things up. ^^