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Yup, and also on 770 
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Guys i tried the microb settings via about:config. Now ITT is loading a lot slower. I liked my microb as is was previously.
Is there a back to default settings switch somewhere? If no can some one tell me what are the defaults for the microb changes.
thanks
Is there a back to default settings switch somewhere? If no can some one tell me what are the defaults for the microb changes.
thanks
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2008-03-25
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Originally Posted by GeraldKo
the sysctl.conf changes are not make or break at this point. I tried again and again to improve the TCP performance or lower CPU overhead and I could not make any changes that were reliable in doing either.
Brontide, have you made, or are you still thinking of making, a deb file to incorporate your overall Tablet tweaks and your MicroB tweaks?
If there's no deb, I'll push through them one at a time, but a deb sure would be a great service to a lot of us. Your tweaks look really helpful and have received lots of positive response. Are there any from those two posts that you would reject at this point?
Should these tweaks work as well on the N800 as on the N810?
I'm focusing on the MicroB tweaks and I think the network.* tweaks are fairly solid ( from the first post ).
Code:
# memory cache will autosize based on ram capacity.
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", -1);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 3);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 1);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 1);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 1000);
# these should be adjusted to taste
user_pref("font.default.x-western", "sans-serif");
user_pref("font.minimum-size.x-western", 14);
user_pref("font.size.fixed.x-western", 14);
user_pref("font.size.variable.x-western", 15);
# I have been running iPhone impersonating and generally it works very well, but this is commented out because some may not.
# user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1C28 Safari/419.3");
More iPhone compatibility for MicroB in general. As much as we can all complain about Safari, it's spun off many high-content slimmed down sites that run great on the NIT's with only a few tweaks here and there.
I have been playing with ( from another thread ) wiring up tel: links so that iphone style phone links work in all apps including MicroB, I have confirmed that both iphone.facebook.com and the iphone gmail contacts page work as expected just by clicking on the phone number. It will launch the URI handler ( by default this is "Internet Call" ).
Collecting and documenting usecontent.css tweaks for MicroB usability. I have used css overrides to strip down many of the sites I frequent so they look better on the small screen.
GrandCentral calling script. Using a SIP account and a small script I have wired up sip: and tel: to activate a custom script so that I can get free outgoing calling ( check the GrandCentral thread for an overview ). This is an extension of the work wiring up the tel: URI format.
I guess it's time for me to stop diddling around with little tweaks and setup a sandbox so I can start really breaking things.
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2008-03-25
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Originally Posted by sachin007
The easiest way to revert all settings is to close MicroB completly and then delete the prefs.js file.
Guys i tried the microb settings via about:config. Now ITT is loading a lot slower. I liked my microb as is was previously.
Is there a back to default settings switch somewhere? If no can some one tell me what are the defaults for the microb changes.
thanks
$ rm /home/user/.mozilla/microb/prefs.js
On the next restart of MicroB it should recreate prefs.js with the defaults.
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2008-03-25
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It takes about:config between 2 minutes and 5 minutes just to open. That's after a reboot and nothing else open in the browser and no other apps open. Is this normal? It seems like it will take forever to make brontide's changes this way.
With regard to brontide's changes, brontide, you have:
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", -1) in the latest post;
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 16384) in an earlier post;
and about:config?browser.cache.memory.capacity=8192 in a third.
The "-1" must be a typo, no? Any conclusion on what's best?
Then for max-connections, you sometimes suggest 2, sometimes 3, and sometimes 4.
For max-connections-per-server you've been at 1 and at 4 (although you're consistently at 1 for persistent connections per server).
With pipelining maxrequests you've been at 1,000 and at 10,000.
I'm also wondering if you're still recommending these additions to the prefs.js file:
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay",2000);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 1250000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
Not knowing linux and working off of cheatsheets of commands, I can't figure out how to edit the prefs.js file. I can get to it via emelFM2. But then it seems I can only view it, can't even copy the file's contents as text.
In Xterm I've tried, before and after sudo gainroot, "less /home/user/.mozilla/microb/prefs.js" and "vim /home/user/.mozilla/microb/prefs.js" and "gvim /home/user/.mozilla/microb/prefs.js" -- but to no avail. (I do it, of course, without the " ".)
Obviously, I don't know what I'm doing!
So, how do I edit the prefs.js file?
(I haven't learned ssh yet. If that's the easiest, I guess just say so. I've downloaded OpenSSH and I've installed WinSCP on my WinXP laptop, but I haven't tried using it yet. I haven't even figured out if I'm supposed to use them with USB or wifi.)
brontide, none of this pointing-out of the discrepancies is meant critically. I really appreciate your doing the experimenting and publishing your conclusions for all of us. But since I understand none of the changes (except for font size), I'd like to get it as close to right as you know on my first try.
With regard to brontide's changes, brontide, you have:
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", -1) in the latest post;
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 16384) in an earlier post;
and about:config?browser.cache.memory.capacity=8192 in a third.
The "-1" must be a typo, no? Any conclusion on what's best?
Then for max-connections, you sometimes suggest 2, sometimes 3, and sometimes 4.
For max-connections-per-server you've been at 1 and at 4 (although you're consistently at 1 for persistent connections per server).
With pipelining maxrequests you've been at 1,000 and at 10,000.
I'm also wondering if you're still recommending these additions to the prefs.js file:
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay",2000);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 1250000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
Not knowing linux and working off of cheatsheets of commands, I can't figure out how to edit the prefs.js file. I can get to it via emelFM2. But then it seems I can only view it, can't even copy the file's contents as text.
In Xterm I've tried, before and after sudo gainroot, "less /home/user/.mozilla/microb/prefs.js" and "vim /home/user/.mozilla/microb/prefs.js" and "gvim /home/user/.mozilla/microb/prefs.js" -- but to no avail. (I do it, of course, without the " ".)
Obviously, I don't know what I'm doing!
So, how do I edit the prefs.js file?
(I haven't learned ssh yet. If that's the easiest, I guess just say so. I've downloaded OpenSSH and I've installed WinSCP on my WinXP laptop, but I haven't tried using it yet. I haven't even figured out if I'm supposed to use them with USB or wifi.)
brontide, none of this pointing-out of the discrepancies is meant critically. I really appreciate your doing the experimenting and publishing your conclusions for all of us. But since I understand none of the changes (except for font size
), I'd like to get it as close to right as you know on my first try.
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Originally Posted by brontide
I tried that but it says /home/user/.mozilla/microb/prefs.js not found.
The easiest way to revert all settings is to close MicroB completly and then delete the prefs.js file.
$ rm /home/user/.mozilla/microb/prefs.jsm
On the next restart of MicroB it should recreate prefs.js with the defaults.
i actually changed the settings via about:config. does that make any difference?
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2008-03-25
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Originally Posted by brontide
I think I did this right. Is there a way to check that I really did disable metalayer-crawler0?
I disabled the metalayer-crawler0 ( as root )
mv /etc/rc2.d/S99metalayer-crawler0 /etc/rc2.d/D99metalayer-crawler0
This will disable the autodetection of media for the built-in media player, but I use canola anyways.
EDIT: Dumb question. I checked by opening the default media player, seeing that it had lots of content listed; then rebooting and opening the default media player again. The content wasn't there and the library went into refresh mode.
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Originally Posted by GeraldKo
It will depend on the total ram which is why I just gave up and went back to -1 ( let microb automatically set the size ). For a n810 with 64MB of swap this automatically sets it to 6mb. The nice thing about -1 is that this will work on any system any autoset.
about:config?browser.cache.memory.capacity=8192 in a third.
The "-1" must be a typo, no? Any conclusion on what's best?
Then for max-connections, you sometimes suggest 2, sometimes 3, and sometimes 4.
For max-connections-per-server you've been at 1 and at 4 (although you're consistently at 1 for persistent connections per server).
With pipelining maxrequests you've been at 1,000 and at 10,000.
I'm also wondering if you're still recommending these additions to the prefs.js file:
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay",2000);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 1250000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
Not knowing linux and working off of cheatsheets of commands, I can't figure out how to edit the prefs.js file. I can get to it via emelFM2. But then it seems I can only view it, can't even copy the file's contents as text.
In Xterm I've tried, before and after sudo gainroot, "less /home/user/.mozilla/microb/prefs.js" and "vim /home/user/.mozilla/microb/prefs.js" and "gvim /home/user/.mozilla/microb/prefs.js" -- but to no avail. (I do it, of course, without the " ".)
Obviously, I don't know what I'm doing!
So, how do I edit the prefs.js file?
I use vi because it's what I'm used to, but you should be able to install nano or pico from one of the repos. Both should provide a much easier editor.
(I haven't learned ssh yet. If that's the easiest, I guess just say so. I've downloaded OpenSSH and I've installed WinSCP on my WinXP laptop, but I haven't tried using it yet. I haven't even figured out if I'm supposed to use them with USB or wifi.)
brontide, none of this pointing-out of the discrepancies is meant critically. I really appreciate your doing the experimenting and publishing your conclusions for all of us. But since I understand none of the changes (except for font size
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I'd be a bit concerned long-term about how healthy it would be to have the NIT using swap a lot more often - *especially* in the case of the N810. The problem is that with swap you're naturally going to have quite a few more read/write cycles, and (for the benefit of those who may not know) flash memory will wear out after too many read/writes.
I suppose if the swap is on an ultimately removable card (such as with the N800) this would be less of a worry, since you can always replace it. This would not necessarily be the case with the N810, though. (And as far as I can tell, you can only put swap space on the internal memory card.)
So, yeah, you may get a performance boost from More Swap Utilization, but it may be the equivalent of burning the candle at both ends.
I suppose if the swap is on an ultimately removable card (such as with the N800) this would be less of a worry, since you can always replace it. This would not necessarily be the case with the N810, though. (And as far as I can tell, you can only put swap space on the internal memory card.)
So, yeah, you may get a performance boost from More Swap Utilization, but it may be the equivalent of burning the candle at both ends.
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If there's no deb, I'll push through them one at a time, but a deb sure would be a great service to a lot of us. Your tweaks look really helpful and have received lots of positive response. Are there any from those two posts that you would reject at this point?
Should these tweaks work as well on the N800 as on the N810?
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