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#16
Originally Posted by Rocketman View Post
I disabled metalayer-crawler using this simple rename the damn file method and I went from 4 MB free ram at system boot to 61! OMG, this app is sooo poorly implemented. Having an app that crawls your filesystem and finds your media files for you isn't a terrible idea, but this happens to be a terrible implementation. For instance, there is no simple, end-user friendly way of specifying which directories to search. This is a big problem when the app defaults to searching everything, especially given the percentage of NIT users who run Maemo Mapper and have directories on their filesystem with literally tens of thousands of files!
I went ahead and disabled mine, since it seems to help everyone else. I'm all for speeding up the device even just a bit.

I don't quite understand what the point of this file is...does it just automatically keep track of music, videos, map files, etc? I thought the media players all did this anyways, or do they access this metalayer-crawler? It sounds similar to a problem that WinMo 5 devices had with a certain background process hogging up most of the CPU all the time.

Also, this may be right in front of me, but how do you check total memory usage after bootup, is it from Xterm?