On Sunday 19 September 2010, Andrew Flegg wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 17:58, Robin Burchell <virot...@viroteck.net> wrote: > > Anyway: this was pretty much in keeping with my idea: move it into > > the task switcher (hildon-desktop/other) so that applications which > > are moved to background are stopped (unless they signal for > > whatever reason that they need to be kept running, but I'm not even > > sure that is necessary: if you really need to do background > > processing constantly, why do it in a GUI application?) > > I suggested something similar three years ago (wow, Maemo's old ;-)) > and the reaction was less favourable:
I tried doing something similar on Maemo 4, except my objective was to SIGSTOP processes for 5-30 seconds at a time during heavy swap load so that the tablet didn't blink into the blue Nokia logo and lose all unsaved work. Oddly what I discovered was that even with an unloaded system, stopping apps usually hung the entire thing, and upon sending SIGCONT, I was greeted by the "$APP is not responding blah blah", quickly followed by the "now responding" message.. _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
