Re: metalayer-crawl and high cpu usage
 

Any reason I can't just use osso-statusbar-cpu to kill the metalayer-crawler process? If I do that and later want to restart it, what do I have to do? Reboot?

I'm thinking I might have found the solution to my fast battery drain problem.

Re: metalayer-crawl and high cpu usage
 

I disabled metalayer-crawler using this simple rename the damn file method and I went from 4 MB free ram at system boot to 61! OMG, this app is sooo poorly implemented. Having an app that crawls your filesystem and finds your media files for you isn't a terrible idea, but this happens to be a terrible implementation. For instance, there is no simple, end-user friendly way of specifying which directories to search. This is a big problem when the app defaults to searching everything, especially given the percentage of NIT users who run Maemo Mapper and have directories on their filesystem with literally tens of thousands of files!

Re: metalayer-crawl and high cpu usage
 

How would I reactivate metalayer-crawl if I needed it again

Re: metalayer-crawl and high cpu usage
 

That would be

mv /usr/bin/metalayer-crawler.deactivated /usr/bin/metalayer-crawler

As root, obviously. Just watch the spaces.

Even Linux has some logic in it... :rolleyes:

Re: metalayer-crawl and high cpu usage
 

Damn ...

I disabled metalayer crawler ... and rebooted .... and now still the CPU usage is high ...

this time it is canola-conf ? anyone else see this ?

Re: metalayer-crawl and high cpu usage
 

I went ahead and disabled mine, since it seems to help everyone else. I'm all for speeding up the device even just a bit.

I don't quite understand what the point of this file is...does it just automatically keep track of music, videos, map files, etc? I thought the media players all did this anyways, or do they access this metalayer-crawler? It sounds similar to a problem that WinMo 5 devices had with a certain background process hogging up most of the CPU all the time.

Also, this may be right in front of me, but how do you check total memory usage after bootup, is it from Xterm?

Re: metalayer-crawl and high cpu usage
 

:-)

canola-conf is metalayer-crawler's cousin done by canola team. It is a bit funny, they are from Nokia too but instead of making one good media scanning daemon together, they chose to make two (less good) ones.

Re: metalayer-crawl and high cpu usage
 

The mplayer one seems to work both swiftly and unobtrusively. Then again, that one's not done by Nokia, innit?

Re: metalayer-crawl and high cpu usage
 

I have switched to using exaile, which is a GTK clone of amarok. Works quite well ... and gives me the control I want. I manually decide when to refresh my directories and it seems to work fine.

Re: metalayer-crawl and high cpu usage
 

Got a link/deb/binary for that?