Hi, ext Niels Breet wrote: >> Just noticed that "Personal launcher" applet (latest v0.6-4 in extras) >> leaks like mad and updates the screen uselessly at high frequency. >> >> Because it's an applet within the Desktop process which allocations are >> guaranteed, it will cause device to run out of memory very soon. Result is >> that other applications start aborting and device will slow down to crawl. >> Constant screen updates (even when screen is blanked) drain >> the battery. >> >> Could this be kicked out of extras so that people don't "launch" their >> devices to oblivion? >> > > I've sent the author a mail. Let's see if he responds and fixes the issue. > > As we have never had a case where we needed to do a 'demotion', I really > think we need to setup some procedures for this. Let's discuss what we > should do in cases like this.
Ideally there should be some quick memory leakage testing done[1] before something enters into extras, at least if it's an applet or otherwise always running. - Eero [1] E.g. using mem-monitor from sp-memusage package in tools repo. _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers