Browserd memory..
 

Having troubles with my n800 only lasting a few hours on charge (since upgrading to diablo) so I've been taking a look around...

Top shows :

Mem: 104736K used, 22060K free, 0K shrd, 56K buff, 41492K cached
Load average: 0.04 0.29 0.30
PID USER STATUS VSZ PPID %CPU %MEM COMMAND
1441 user SW 67348 1439 0.0 53.0 browserd
1093 user SW< 47324 1020 0.0 37.2 maemo-launcher
1439 user SW 40160 1 0.0 31.6 browserd
1624 user SW 40140 1020 0.0 31.6 maemo-launcher
1050 user SW< 36880 1020 0.0 29.0 maemo-launcher
1220 user SW< 23012 1020 0.0 18.1 maemo-launcher
1020 user SW< 21300 1 0.0 16.7 maemo-launcher
1407 user SW 16640 342 0.0 13.1 mediaplayer-eng
1415 user SWN 16584 342 0.0 13.0 metalayer-crawl
1320 user SW< 16196 342 0.0 12.7 powerlaunch
1435 root SW 14804 1 0.0 11.6 eapd
824 root SW< 10264 342 0.0 8.0 Xomap
862 user SW< 9008 342 0.0 7.0 matchbox-window
1629 root SWN 7908 1624 0.0 6.2 apt-worker


That 'browserd' usage seems really high to me!
(Especially - as I'm not running anything!)


Is that normal ?

Re: Browserd memory..
 

No, a memory usage value this high when it's not in use is not normal. Probably something in browserd is hanging. You shoud reboot the device.

Re: Browserd memory..
 

FWIW, top shows precisely those numbers for %MEM for browserd for my N800, as well, with all apps closed and even after reboot.

Re: Browserd memory..
 

Mine too - this is "clean" - nothing running (i've got a couple of applets - but no browsers etc), and fresh after a battery out reboot..



If I start a web browser (eg. with news.bbc.co.uk) :

Mem: 122920K used, 3876K free, 0K shrd, 2360K buff, 55180K cached
Load average: 1.21 0.41 0.14
PID USER STATUS VSZ PPID %CPU %MEM COMMAND
2928 user SW 126M 2926 35.9102.0 browserd
824 root SW< 11012 342 9.1 8.6 Xomap
2749 user SW< 40336 2678 2.3 31.7 maemo-launcher
3406 root RW 1960 3391 2.1 1.5 top
350 root SW 804 342 0.9 0.6 bme_RX-34
79 root SW< 0 6 0.5 0.0 OMAP McSPI/0
399 root SW< 0 6 0.1 0.0 cx3110x


:-(



I can probably get this stuck onto the internet so someone can ssh in if they want to take a look around.

Re: Browserd memory..
 

For reference - this n800 was flashed from the latest diablo I could see :

RX-34_DIABLO_5.2008.43-7_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin

from

http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/nokia_N800.php

Re: Browserd memory..
 

'top' produces bogus results, install 'htop' from maemo sdk (sdk-tools?) repository
http://repository.maemo.org/pool/diablo/free/h/htop/

The column you should be worried about is the "RES" one (resident memory), "VIRT" (reported also by top as VSZ) is not an issue. Also when you substract SHR (shared) from RES you get real nonshared/private memory taken by this process. Shared are dynamic libraries and this memory penalty is paid only once for all processes.

Re: Browserd memory..
 

so on my device browserd that does nothing has
VIRT 40512 RES 3532 SHR 3328 so the real memory taken by this browserd=3532-3328= 208 KB
browserd instance with page loaded
VIRT 149M RES 44432 SHR 19996 so real private memory is 24MB with additional 20MB shared (microb engine?)

Re: Browserd memory..
 

Sorry for nub question but how do I istall this? I get incompatible application package.

Re: Browserd memory..
 

The same way you will have to use it - from the terminal ;)

Re: Browserd memory..
 

Sorry I'm not fluent in linux would you be so kind as to explain how exactly?

Re: Browserd memory..
 

dpkg -i package.deb

as root.

Re: Browserd memory..
 

thank you but "errors where encountered..."

Not sure what's wrong. Does anyone have this program working? How did you install it?

Re: Browserd memory..
 

Yup, works like a charm. Installed it the good ole way. ;)