[maemo-developers] Beware 'Personal launcher'

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Niels Breet wrote:
>> Just noticed that "Personal launcher" applet (latest v0.6-4 in extras)
>> leaks like mad and updates the screen uselessly at high frequency.
>>
>> Because it's an applet within the Desktop process which allocations are
>> guaranteed, it will cause device to run out of memory very soon.  Result is
>> that other applications start aborting and device will slow down to crawl.
>> Constant screen updates (even when screen is blanked) drain
>> the battery.
>>
>> Could this be kicked out of extras so that people don't "launch" their
>> devices to oblivion?
>>
> 
> I've sent the author a mail. Let's see if he responds and fixes the issue.
> 
> As we have never had a case where we needed to do a 'demotion', I really
> think we need to setup some procedures for this. Let's discuss what we
> should do in cases like this.

Ideally there should be some quick memory leakage testing done[1] before
something enters into extras, at least if it's an applet or otherwise
always running.


	- Eero

[1] E.g. using mem-monitor from sp-memusage package in tools repo.