[maemo-users] Problem in 2008 and looking for duplicate

[From: Austin Che]

> On Wednesday 28 November 2007 07:32:20 pm James Sparenberg wrote:
>> All,
>>
>>
>>    OK.  Since I installed 2008 If experienced a marked decrease in
>> batter life.  As in total IDLE time is around 1 hour.  This is of
>> course not good.  So I started looking and I've found that even
>> after a reboot something called metaplayer-crawl is running my cpu
>> constantly at around 94-98% ...However if i do something else like
>> say hit a key on the keyboard.  It will play nice .... release cpu
>> and then climb right back up again.  I can't kill it it comes right
>> back at the same high levels.  In short.  my n800 is all but
>> useless because of this.
>>
>>   Is anyone else seeing this?
>>
>> James
>
> my bad that is metalayer not metaplayer.  sorry.

    Ah ha. Thanks! I've been seeing the same thing all day with the
    device being unresponsive and not much battery life. Now I
    remember that I had disabled the bad metalayer-crawler daemon on
    os2007 as it really takes over when you have lots of media. I've
    just killed it again and the difference in usability of the
    interface is markedly increased:
    update-rc.d -f metalayer-crawler0 remove