Thread: Features for next device
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egoshin is offline egoshin
2010-09-07 , 19:29
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#37
Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
It does. The core of Maemo will cease sending events and wakeups to applications. Misbehaved applications can still screw things up, and usually hildon-desktop screwing up is the result of a poorly written plugin.
I think it has sense to clarify here - what do you mean with "core of Maemo". I did my own event logging and I know for sure that there are a lot of applications which don't cease an activity with locked screen. In my surprise I even see a frequent polling of orientation by MCE with screen locked and even without ANY application which requests this info. Damn!

It can't -force- applications to stop, but it easily could be configured to do so.
I can do it. Kernel has mechanics - "cgroups". It is only need to be configured to have a right cgroup and I compiled my own kernel with it and tested. But I can't stop MCE.


No PC ever hits more than a couple hundred KBytes/sec when being forced to page.
You mixed paging with swapping. Both uses the same mechanics but swapping means - "swap out the whole application" and that enjoys the sequential disk writes with 50MB/sec bandwidth in contrast with random paging. You can measure it yourself, BTW.