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Originally Posted by javispedro View Post
Btw, if writes are slowed down, wouldn't a heavy swapiness actually help -- as it would nice to keep as much free RAM as possible to minimize the amount of frames to page out when you're interacting with the device?
Not really. If you compare the amount of free RAM with swappiness set to 100 and 30, you will see that there is no difference. I guess it all depends on how much free memory you have got to begin with and what your swap device performance is. Ours is dismal.

BTW, there is another parameter there, called page-cluster. Maemo5 has it set to 128kB at the moment. It may be of some interest to play with it.
 
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One more thing that absolutely has to be tuned:
In /home/user/.config/tracker/tracker.cfg:

# Minimizes memory use at the expense of indexing speed
LowMemoryMode=false ===> true
# Sets the indexing speed (0->20, where 20=slowest speed)
Throttle=0 ===> 15

And then restart the Tracker. This seems to fix the Camera, so that you can make more than one photo without delays and sluggishness. Although I have not yet tried how camera works after a few days of uptime with this change.
 

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Originally Posted by fms View Post
One more thing that absolutely has to be tuned:
In /home/user/.config/tracker/tracker.cfg:

# Minimizes memory use at the expense of indexing speed
LowMemoryMode=false ===> true
# Sets the indexing speed (0->20, where 20=slowest speed)
Throttle=0 ===> 15

And then restart the Tracker. This seems to fix the Camera, so that you can make more than one photo without delays and sluggishness. Although I have not yet tried how camera works after a few days of uptime with this change.
can you give us the exact code?

i open x terminal and type:
sudo gainroot
please help with the rest =P

NVM i got it, but i did it via WinSCP

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#44
Originally Posted by RogerTHAcctant View Post
can you give us the exact code?
Or you can just install the gui...

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=47690
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#45
I got up to 10 days uptime recently (had to restart for an OMweather update) and I didn't have any slowdown. I have Personal IP Address, some DCEW widgets, Calendar, Media widget, OMWeather and the RSS widget running.
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#46
Originally Posted by myeyegooogles View Post
i have the calendar, facebook, and 3 desktop command execution widgets, along with some app shortcuts and bookmarks, the widgets definitely seem like the culprit.

is there way to restart the hildon desktop without rebooting. rebooting every 3 days is annoying.

also, if there is a way to restart the desktop, then make a script and make a cron job out of it?
sudo gainroot, then

killall hildon-home

killall hildon-desktop
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#47
Originally Posted by JorgeFX View Post
Check this thread I made:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=58935
Tried it out, pretty slick. Now I got figure out how to make an Icon for the desktop shortcut.

Ill be testing out the script for a couple of days to see how long I can go without rebooting.
 
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I suspect with swappiness 1 as in Maemo 4, there's very little swapping going on until things get really cramped, and then there's a lot of swapping until things improve, and that with Maemo 5 there's a small amount of swapping going on more or less all the time, making the onset of slowdown less sudden. But I'm just guessing.
 
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Yeah, so familiar stuff in here. I can run maximum of 6 days and after that stuff gets so slow it's not funny. Even if the use is light it happens.
I tried running the script that kills hildon-home etc. It's a solution all right but I'm still not convinced that suddenly killing daemons etc is a good idea.

Well I can only hope Nokia will sort this out in future patches.
 
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Originally Posted by myeyegooogles View Post
Tried it out, pretty slick. Now I got figure out how to make an Icon for the desktop shortcut.

Ill be testing out the script for a couple of days to see how long I can go without rebooting.
I normally can make 7 or 8 days in a row, but I'm constantly changing the script and when I do something wrong BOOM! restart! But I think if I stop playing so much with the scripts and kernel settings maybe I could make the entire month using the script without problem.
 
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