Thread: How many times does your N900 freeze?
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shadowjk is offline shadowjk
2010-08-15 , 09:12
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#43
Originally Posted by twigleaf1976 View Post

Hangs every time mid way through a film and I press the screen to get the little icons for pause. Takes five seconds of stutturing noise and choppy film before it hangs and then gives me the icons. Sometimes dropping the app completely and dropping to desktop. The blessed little CPU can't hack film playback AND something pressing the screen at the same time. Perhaps it is watching the film as well and not paying attention?
I get that sometimes, but it's an I/O issue, not a CPU issue. When stuff is demanding alot of ram, something else gets pushed out to swap. When it tries to load the icons again, there'll on one hand be activity retrieving those back from swap, as well as pushing something else to swap, and probably also apps wanting their code back from /opt. The emmc is extremely bad at multitasking, and slows down alot. Nothing happens when apps is waiting for the emmc to give them their data back, the cpu is sitting idle waiting for the emmc to provide data.

Interesting vote though. Amazing what people put up with or how much difference there is amongst something manufactured the same way.
I'd think the filesystems would get pretty thoroughly corrupted after a week or two of battery removal every day, resulting in most time being spent trying to figure out the fs