At least you were willing to go to the effort of repeating what the problem is, which he wasn't.

Now I've gone to the trouble of going back and rereading his earlier message. It appears to me that he is saying that with starving and other settings his system becomes unresponsive.

Yes, different settings cause different N900s to react differently. That is why there are different settings. I have found that certain settings make my system unresponsive as well, so I don't use those settings.