David Garabana Barro wrote:
> On Thursday 26 November 2009 16:31:02 David Garabana Barro wrote:
>> On Thursday 26 November 2009 13:56:29 johnnymnemonic wrote:
>>> Now it has all the icons and with the last kernel upgrade seems less slow
>>> than before
>> It's defenitly more usable now.
>> I'll try it this evening on the road, but now scroll is as fast as before.
> 
> But now navit have not launcher. It calls "navit" binary directly

The launcher was evil. All it did was setting a /proc/sys/vm/ variable
that allowed the kernel to promise applications more memory than it
actually has. This changes the behavior of all applications and it was
never ever set back, not even when navit exited.

Promising apps more memory than you have (especially with no swap by
default) is tricky, because when apps start claiming the memory they got
promised, the kernel has no choice but to deny apps that, or to kill of
processes at (near) random in order to free more RAM. This is a hell to
reproduce and debug, for a user it seems to be random crashes of various
apps. So it was removed. If people actually want that setting we can
think about how to do it (I believe Zoff is writing a more advance
launcher script), but it should not be enabled by default for all.

spaetz

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