sorry to say, but i have not been able to track it to a specific source.

its just that i have seen the hildon-desktop process eat quite a bit of cpu at times lately, but cant really pin it on a source. it can become so bad that it affects the scrolling of the menus.

hmm, now that i think about it, it may not be the applets, but maybe something in the connection between python and the desktop. as i have seen it continue even after i have killed all applets on the desktop. and its something that i cant recall seeing before i started testing these python based applets...

I installed a few of the app's ! But i think the app's eat up the battery LIFE. I stoped them and my IT n800 runs for 3 days just fine standby/lite browsing . With the app's runing i don't even get 24 hours standby . Can someone please test that out and let me know if the same happens to you . I had the ip app, mem,cpu and drive space app's runing when i did the test .

Thanks
computerfreek

It really is hard to pin down the source of the problem when hildon-desktop eats cpu usage. For example, I was having problems with CPU usage whenever I put in my 16 GB SDHC into the external slot. It wasn't meta-layer crawler as far as I knew (it was eating less hten 10%) and I also disabled it. Yet hildon-desktop kept eating cpu. I took it out, and hildon-desktop's cpu usage dropped.

Couldn't figure it out so I just redid my dual boot and put it on my 16 GB, and now I don't have that problem anymore.. Weird.


computerfreek, are you leaving the tablet on desktop or in another window? I believe the topic creator said that if it's on the desktop it'll eat more cpu usage. I'd test it but I only use the wifi signal applet (doesn't seem to make any impacts on battery life as far as I can see).

Yeah i always close all my windows . So it is sitting at the desktop. as i use SIP phone on it i keep it on 24/7 . I stoped all the APP's and it seems fine now . I wish this did not happen i like the ip app. i can always keep a page or a program open i gess .

what we need is a way that wh the system/IT shuts the screen off it stops the refresh of the desktop apps . this way it will not be eating batt life refreshing something you can't see as your screen is off.

computerfreek

ps . I will also check with just the IP app and see how it is on batt with and with out it on.

Khertan: I was referring to the following in homediskfree.py (and others?) that I glanced through a few days ago:

I was tablet-less when I replied so could not check but remembered the timer. I wouldn't think 2sec interval would add much battery drain (but don't know for sure). S'pose tso could set it to much larger interval and check the effect.

I want to see the external IP of my router/connection in the HomeIP applet... or a two line 1 for the LAN IP and other with the external (Internet) IP.

for seeing the external ip i guess there are two options. one to access the router somehow, and two using a external source of some kind that report what ip is being used to access the resource.

as for the timeout thing, maybe ill look at it. funny thing is that homediskfree isnt a big user of cpu, memfree, wifi and similar are tho. but i guess it comes from there being no way to just refresh when actual change happens. instead one have to grab the data source at intervals to see if anything have changed. pull vs push and all that...

played around a bit, and found that right after "killing" hildon-desktop its nice and snappy (killing it this way seems to even restore all my active applets). but ones i load the homefreemem applet, it becomes notisably slower to render the scrolling of menus for example. and this stays on even after i unload the applet. the only way to "unslug" the desktop is by "killing" it and have it reload...

Khertan, could you update your first post to either (1) link to the latest applets or (2) tell everyone that the applets are now in the extras-devel repo and they should get them there?

Khertan - I am using these applets successfully - Thanks!

I am wondering - are these "open source", any restrictions on reusing/abusing your code?

I would like to see more choice in desktop applets - thanks for a big step in the right direction.

I would like to see a battery-status plugin eventually as well, and I have a few other odd ideas - I do not have the python skill, or the time, to do it myself at this point, but I am about finished with classes for the semester, and then I may dive into Python - it looks relatively easy (I am currently taking a Java class, and I enjoy it, although it is the only programming experience I have - wish Java was of more use on the tablet...).

As for using lots of resources - I haven't noticed a problem, however I have been using my tablet very lightly lately, so it is certainly possible...

Patrick

I may have to dig into this code a little and see if I can tweak it. Like others, I like to leave it on the desktop, so I also discovered that it killed the battery. What I'd like to do is a sort of count-down. It updates "live" for the first 3 minutes (every two seconds), then stops updating until the next time you switch to the home screen.

Time to do some forum-searching. Is there a command-line method for detecting if it's connected to the charger? I could then enable it to continue updates it attached to the charger.

- Jim