On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 04:13:54PM +0100, Tony Green wrote: > > For what it is worth, after I removed /usr/bin/metalayer-crawler, my > > system went from being completely unusable for anything but being a > > broken alarm clock to being relatively useful. > > metalayer-crawler's generally only a system-hog at bootup, so shouldn't cause > many problems unless you completely shut down and reboot your device rather > than just suspending it. > > I must admit to being surprised how badly it slows the system down, since > according to the init file, it apparently should be running with a niceness > of 19, so should pretty much only get CPU time when nothing else requires it.
Perhaps it should be ionice'd as well? Heavy I/O may hog the system
down even if the process is niced.
What I/O scheduler does Maemo use? ionice only works with CFQ.
Marius Gedminas
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