Is it possible to always-cache certain programs or applications? Neo has a considerably big RAM. I guess, many would be OK with their rarely-used applications loading/running slow...but the core phone applications need to be quicker.
> > Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:03:27 +0200 > From: Visti Andresen <ta...@talpa.dk> > Subject: Re: why openmoko is so slow? Is it a joke? > To: devel@lists.openmoko.org > Message-ID: <20090716110327.45ff8...@zeus> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > >> > On that note, perhaps I've read too far into your comments--maybe all >> > you're saying is, `I am upset that the FreeRunner apparently cannot be >> > all things to all people'? >> >> I don't know what to say, but there sure is a lot of scope for >> improvement - at least from the "software" point of view. I guess, I >> don't need *all* the things at all times, but I sure need a better >> call-pickup-dial speeds! >> Eg. Currently my phone starts ringing only after the caller has got 1 >> or 2 "rings"..After I press pickup, it rings for once more before >> actually "picking up". What is the phone doing during these "wait" >> times? >> > > I think it may be related to "disk" activity. > Applications that have been used recently seems to work a lot faster > than other applications. > I presume that this is caused by those apps having there disk data in the > IO cache, after a while other services might have used the disk effectively > flushing the relative small/tiny amount of free mem used for caching. > > > > -- > Visti Andresen > > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
