XO keeps staring at its own belly button

Martin Dengler martin at martindengler.com
Thu Aug 7 10:30:27 EDT 2008


On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 10:25:56AM -0400, Erik Garrison wrote:
> 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:
> > > 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.

Aha - sorry I thought "python GC" when i raed the mail for some
reason.  I did notice what I thought was the jffs2 GC hanging the Home
View after boot in joyride-2251, which I don't notice in joyride-2258
now.

> Erik

Martin
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