Good morning guys :) funny thing with the low memory i left my phone in my pocket open yesterday which screwed my mobile settings - i ended up zapping it as couldnt get mobile data to work! put everything back as normal now i rockwork and owncloud sync installed and like to have dekko running unconfined and music app waiting to play and thats it, i usually battle to keep these to open .. last night i had these open and can usually open only one social media app IE facebook, if i want to go on google + i have to close facebook other wise i get this reload when im scrolling down last night i had the music / dekko and facebook and google + working perfect it was like the phone had a new lease of life!
I thought about it this morning, the only thing thats different on this phone than my usual setups is i dont have ssh enabled to the phone? Can that make a difference or has there been some changes over the past few days, i am on proposed Many thanks for any questions Wayne :) On Wed, 2016-07-20 at 13:37 +0200, Eran Benjamin wrote: > > > On 19-07-16 17:41, Gerry Boland wrote: > > On 07/16/2016 08:48 PM, Thomas Voß wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 8:25 PM, รัชนันท์ ศรีรัตนเมธ > > > <peat...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > <snip> > > > > In Ubuntu touch, I have no idea where oom_adj is computed. > > > > (Please anyone > > > > tell me?) But from my experiment, all suspended applications > > > > have the same > > > > value of oom_adj. How this affects the problem? Imagine this: > > > You are almost right, but we are not using Android's > > > lowmemorykiller, yet. > > > Instead, we configure the vanilla OOM killer by altering > > > oom_score_adj > > > (oom_adj is deprecated). > > > > > > Android's lowmemorykiller sits on top of this mechanism and > > > allows for > > > specifying ranges of memory > > > and mappings to oom{_score}_adj values. > > > > > > As you describe later, we are not yet deploying a heuristic that > > > assigns a higher oom_score_adj value > > > to app instances that have been used less recently (think about: > > > least > > > recently used is more likely to be killed under the assumption > > > of a uniform distribution of memory usage). The respective > > > feature is > > > under development iirc, but I'll > > > let Gerry and Ted comment on this explicitly (I CC'ed both of > > > them explicitly). > > Thomas is correct, while we're setting an OOM score to influence > > the OOM > > killer's decisions, we currently set the same OOM score for all > > background apps, irrespective of how recently they were used. > > > > We're now working on more advanced OOM score calculation, so that a > > recently-used background app is less likely to be killed than one > > used > > less recently. This bug tracks that task: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-app-launch/+bug/15 > > 79799 > > > > > > <snip> > > > > 2.Ubuntu touch's choice for using QML. Out of curiosity, I > > > > opened an SSH > > > > session, ran "top", and looked at the calculator app's memory > > > > usage on my > > > > phone. I found out it's around 113 MB. 113 MB just for a > > > > caculator!? I'm > > > > speechless. > > > > I believe this can be reduced somehow. One of the idea is that, > > > > as many QML > > > > component in Ubuntu is shipped as source .qml files, I > > > > understand that each > > > > application will have to load those files, parse that files, > > > > and keep those > > > > parsed code individually in each application's memory (please > > > > correct me if > > > > I'm wrong). As many Android kernel has enabled KSM (kernel > > > > samepage > > > > merging), maybe we should try exploiting it? I've tried > > > > enabling KSM on my > > > > device, but the result was pretty disappointing. Maybe we > > > > should mark those > > > > memory as mergeable? > > > > > > > I think we should take the time and analyze memory usage first > > > before > > > starting to optimize. > > > Specifically, for the reported 113 MB, is that RSS, USS or PSS?. > > > I > > > don't have a phone with ssh handy right now > > > but I will try to reproduce your test case tomorrow first thing. > > > I > > > would start analyzing /proc/$pid/smaps first. > > > > > > I would also propose to establish a memory baseline measurement > > > by > > > considering a very simple QML app just displaying a rectangle. > > > That should give a reasonable baseline for comparisons. Even if > > > the > > > calculator is simple, it still puts its own app logic on top > > > (stack of > > > calculations etc.). > > QML is a very easy language to use, but that has a consequence: it > > is > > easy to write code in a memory wasteful manner. > > > > One can easily write code that loads all the views your application > > will > > ever have into memory - even though only one view is shown at a > > time. It > > just takes a little care to properly load/unload views to lower > > your > > memory use (using the UITK will help with that). > > > > It is too easy to load big images into memory and scale them down > > on the > > GPU. Complex QML widgets can be expensive in memory too - the UITK > > team > > are working on rewrite existing QML widgets to be more efficient. > > > > The sad truth is that when developing an application, monitoring > > memory > > usage is one of the last things thought of! > > > > To address thing we're working on a performance monitoring system > > to > > give a high-level perspective on application resource usage > > (CPU/memory/IO...), so we can quickly identify wasteful apps and > > help > > them improve. Watch this space! > > > > Thanks for sharing your thoughts. > > -Gerry > > > Is there a simple way (e.g. cli) to influence this OOM score metric? > Let's say that the music app is my most important, but I do not bring > it up often, can I manually give it some static priority in the > decision making? > > > > > > > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp