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I think I read on here that MeeGo is also using tracker (correct me if I'm wrong)
thumbnailer/indexer and apt-worker/update checks are the reason for 95% of unresponsiveness problems I've had on my N900. I am using it for web browsing or whatever, things are going great and then suddenly it is nearly unusable for several minutes. Switch over to conky and sure enough one of those things is going full steam ahead.
The lag seemed to get much worse after PR1.2, I guess because much of it was moved to /opt which I believe is slower(?)
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2010-10-12
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The greatest cause of all the lag is low RAM. Essential stuff gets paged out and you're stuck with an unresponsive system while tracker and apt-worker are slamming the flash. So you're fighting paging vs. regular IOs, when in fact a lot of stuff getting paged out shouldn't be.
I certainly hope the N9 has 512MB of RAM, preferrably more.
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Despite loving the N900, there are several problems with software, including these four issues:
1. Problem: Apt worker causing load. Solution: Set Apt to check automatically once every year. Problem solved.
2. Problem: Thumbnailer Daemon using lots of power. Solution: Disable it forcefully by renaming the executable. Problem solved.
3. Problem: Media player is horrible(Can't add songs by filename to now-playing, auto-index never works right, not all file-types are supported). Solution: Install alternate player, like KMPlayer.
4. Problem: hildon-desktop eats batterylife. Solution: Install fixed version of hildon-desktop.
As you can see, these problems are a big deal... but they can all be dealt with! All it takes is a little manual configuration.
I -would- like to see a simple Python app for doing a lot of this configuration stuff - It would really help the command-line-newbs, but that's a topic for a different day.
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thanks nokia and its stupid programmers, i have thumbs, but cant dial a number!