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Root [Boost Mobile] [ROM] n00b (B10 based) VIII.II FULL Install 1/23/2013

MrBobo said:
I swear I tested this LOL

Anyways, I see the lag now, working on a fix...

One of the biggest changes I made was moving to use zRam instead of swap, I am going to try making that bigger and see if it puts us back on track, I will put out an update later. I don't believe re-flashing will solve the lag issue. If I run terminal and type free when the lag is happening, almost all the zRam is used up so I think that's the issue. I don't think the overclock settings are the cause, I have been using those for a long time. I went to zram recently. I think I didn't catch that because I rarely run the phone more than a few hours without rebooting since I am usually playing with different things for the ROM. I am noticing the zRAM seems to fill up slowly the more apps you use and eventually you just run out of memory with the current level.

If anyone else wants to test the change, here is the one I am playing with now, just flash in recovery and reboot.
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Something I've been working on is using crond to schedule a daily reboot.
 
Smoothkaos said:
Lol well I'm freaking flying now on my end once I turned off my setcpu profiles and turned off the tweak so it looks like my phone loves zram better than the old setup
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I usually never set any profiles in set cpu, just min / max. Not many apps either, running apps are cool tool, and my gmail with background data enabled. Holo hangs every once in a while, but I put that down to the app itself not the rom. :)
 
MrBobo said:
I swear I tested this LOL

Anyways, I see the lag now, working on a fix...

One of the biggest changes I made was moving to use zRam instead of swap, I am going to try making that bigger and see if it puts us back on track, I will put out an update later. I don't believe re-flashing will solve the lag issue. If I run terminal and type free when the lag is happening, almost all the zRam is used up so I think that's the issue. I don't think the overclock settings are the cause, I have been using those for a long time. I went to zram recently. I think I didn't catch that because I rarely run the phone more than a few hours without rebooting since I am usually playing with different things for the ROM. I am noticing the zRAM seems to fill up slowly the more apps you use and eventually you just run out of memory with the current level.

If anyone else wants to test the change, here is the one I am playing with now, just flash in recovery and reboot.
Click to expand...

I had noticed my self that my RAM was constantly running low. I use go launcher which gives me easy access to view my running app and available ram. Available RAM is 379 and when ever I would start to lag badly my ram was pretty much maxed out. I am currently using AutoKiller Memory Optimizer from the market to combat this and have it set to EXTREME on the settings. It has helped A LOT. I still get a bit of lag but performance was improved 10 fold. Hopefully somehow we can get more RAM to try and combat this performance issue but for now im sticking with that app. Hope this helps anyone out there having issues with RAM.
 
I'm game too but would like an out or an undo zip first in the event it doesn't work or locks me up. I don't wanna have to reflash today lol. My phone is like an old man, doesn't take too kindly to change haha

Edit: tried dl'ing but the link is broken
 
@ MrBobo

I kept trying zram for my rom & others and it always seemed laggy no mater how big or small. It also seemes to make boot up slower.
Not sure zram is the right choice for the warp atm. But if you get it figured out let me know please. Btw nice job on VII.
 
Just installed it. Everything seems much less laggy, especially games like Cut the Rope. Running smoothass/sio @1.7ghz

- Edit
Boat browser stays in memory longer without having to reload the page. Only have roughly 30mb of ram free, but still running very smooth.
 
Now I'm getting random reboots after flashing this. my phone will be just sitting there and it'll reboot. I tried to run benchmark 4 times, 3 of those times it wouldn't complete them it would boot out...no force close, just shut down.
 
I just flashed it. Took about 6 minutes to boot but I seriously think it's because it learned ESP because it's so fast now that it's anticipating what I wanna do before I do it! Holy $hit! Only one other time has my phone ran so well and that was when I tested a version of alienwarp rom :D
 
That said though, my phone will occasionally turn evil and wig so that's my first impression. I'll update with any changes and at the latest I'll provide status tonight.
 
SicFreak said:
Now I'm getting random reboots after flashing this. my phone will be just sitting there and it'll reboot. I tried to run benchmark 4 times, 3 of those times it wouldn't complete them it would boot out...no force close, just shut down.
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Probably oom-ing...what's your lowmem settings?
 
running updated Zram now. seeing some improvement but i will definetly continue testing and see how things go. Right now im using about 320 of normal ram and about 70 of Zram and everything is running smooth. previously at 320 i would have been lagging although i wasnt checking zram prior to today.

like i said ill keep testing and seeing what happens.
 
SicFreak said:
245 Mhz as of right now.
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Low memory settings...not low end of your cpu...
specifically minfree

To find this open terminal emulator or plug into adb and execute

[HIGH]cat /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/minfree[/HIGH]

or use root explorer, navigate to that file and open as a text doc
 
I'll be the first to say that those settings are about the only thing left on the android platform that is written in Martian to me so I'd like to learn about what they specifically do if somebody were so kind to edjamacate me
 
Smoothkaos said:
I'll be the first to say that those settings are about the only thing left on the android platform that is written in Martian to me so I'd like to learn about what they specifically do if somebody were so kind to edjamacate me
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Basically lowmem is androids built in task killer. Minfree is the minimum free memory at which the system will start killing tasks and/or start moving them into swap space (zram/swapfile/swap partition). Because zram exists in memory and technically decreases the ammount of ram available to the system/apps you need to increase minfree values accordingly...more so with zram than traditional swapfile/partition because of where it resides
 
drewhill77 said:
Low memory settings...not low end of your cpu...
specifically minfree

To find this open terminal emulator or plug into adb and execute

[HIGH]cat /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/minfree[/HIGH]or use root explorer, navigate to that file and open as a text doc
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I'm at 2048, 3072, 4096, 6144, 7168, 8192
 
Smoothkaos said:
I'm @ 1536, 3072, 4096, 51200, 57600, & 64000
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Are you having fc's or system reboots like SicFreak?

SicFreak said:
I'm at 2048, 3072, 4096, 6144, 7168, 8192
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Those are basically stock values...
quick fix is to type the following into a terminal or adb
[HIGH]echo "500,1000,20000,20000,20000,25000" > /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/minfree[/HIGH]

after that try running antutu and see if it reboots or fc's on you again
if no problems then add that line to the bottom of your zram/swap script in init.d
 
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