[maemo-developers] Quality assurance of "stable" software: my battery drained in few hours

[From: Kimmo Hämäläinen]

On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 10:30 +0200, ext Sivan Greenberg wrote:
> Stuck could be deduced for example when the process is in more then
> 90% CPU for more than a threshold duration that we will  predetermine
> and being idle on its I/O streams.

But that would prevent running Seti at Home ;)  Browser could easily take
90% CPU in a "legal case" when flash is involved.

-Kimmo

> 
> Sivan
> 
> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Daniil Ivanov <daniil.ivanov at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Sivian!
> >
> >  How do you define the stuck? It's Ok for the process to consume >90%
> > of CPU time for short
> >  period of time.
> >
> > Thanks, Daniil.
> >
> > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Sivan Greenberg <sivan at omniqueue.com> wrote:
> >> Hey Daniil,
> >>
> >>  If a process is stuck in and awakened , and consumes more then a
> >> $PERDEFINED % of cpu, and it's output and input streams are idle, then
> >> I'd say we need to seriously consider killing it.
> >>
> >> Sivan
> >>
> >> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Daniil Ivanov <daniil.ivanov at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi Silvan!
> >>>
> >>>  In these terms GPS and WiFi are also maligant. How kernel or
> >>> anything else could
> >>>  know what is reasonable power consumption for a process?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks, Daniil.
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Sivan Greenberg <sivan at omniqueue.com> wrote:
> >>>> Actually, I would think the kernel should already do something like that...
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Sivan Greenberg <sivan at omniqueue.com> wrote:
> >>>>> Doesn't the userland carry some sort of process monitoring, killing
> >>>>> malignant processes ? If not, we should develop something like this
> >>>>> for MeeGo.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Sivan
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Aniello Del Sorbo <anidel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>> On 29 May 2010 10:03, Andrea Grandi <a.grandi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On 29 May 2010 19:02, Ian <vern at riseup.net> wrote:
> >>>>>>> > Hi
> >>>>>>> >
> >>>>>>> >> I went to sleep at 3:00, I wake up few minutes ago with the N900
> >>>>>>> >> powered off. There was not any active connection when I went to sleep,
> >>>>>>> >> so could anyone please explain me WHO drained my whole battery?!
> >>>>>>> >
> >>>>>>> > Bluetooth? I'd check that
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I never use it
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Is this a freshly flashed N900?
> >>>>>> Or did you restore from a backup?
> >>>>>> I had mine died yesterday in half a day because a process (I think
> >>>>>> intellisync or something like that) was stuck somehow somewhere.
> >>>>>> I have mine from a restored backup. Sure I wanted it to be stable after a
> >>>>>> restore, but sometimes old config files/settings/whatever cause unexpected
> >>>>>> (quite impossible to catch in testing) behaviors.
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> anidel
> >>>>>>
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