XO keeps staring at its own belly button

Erik Garrison erik at laptop.org
Thu Aug 7 10:25:56 EDT 2008


On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 02:57:58PM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 08:46:35AM -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> > Been noticing more and more that often my XO acts non-responsively.
> 
> joyride-2258 feels more responsive to me that joyride-2251.
> Quantitative feedback this is not.
> 
> > I know that garbage collection can make the XO appear unresponsive.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean; I wouldn't have said this.
> 

I believe Mikus is referring to the jffs2 garbage collector, which is
sometimes implicated by profiling tests as a resource hog.  I am unsure
if it can have the effect of making the XO appear unresponsive.

Erik



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