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Re: Catching CPU run-aways on Touch

 

hi,
On Mi, 2013-09-04 at 13:15 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:

> > Note that this is not really about power consumption. Colin King has
> > done analysis of power consumption on Touch devices and the biggest
> > bang for the buck is ensuring that sensors are turned off when they
> > are not needed, not minimising CPU usage. Instead, please consider
> > this proposal an attempt to better ensure the stability and
> > performance of Touch systems out in the wild.
> 
> Just to be clear as I feel the above can be misread: It _absolutely is
> a top priority_  that we don't have runaway processes consuming
> 50,100,150% CPU all the time due to buggy behaviour. Note that fixing
> that is also not really "minimising", but rather "fixing waste".
> 
> So yeah, whatever helps us identify and extract info useful for
> debugging these cases in automation is more than welcome.

well, this proposal seems to be more about "clean up the mess
afterwards" in case a misbehaving app slipped thought the automated
testing and needs specific runtime handling (as well as automated error
reporting from the running enduser device)

ciao
	oli

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