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- From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
- Subject: S3: Re: Odd Psion 3 behaviour
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.145707.21797@city.cs>
- Summary: ^^ Lets see if this scheme works
- Sender: news@city.cs (News)
- Organization: City University, London
- References: <727355258.8255@minster.york.ac.uk> <1993Jan20.132011.21473@geosys.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 14:57:07 GMT
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- steve@geosys.co.uk writes:
- >I have noticed this behaviour as well, here are some clues I have picked up
- >
- > 1) The slowdown seems to always start at half past the hour
- > 2) If you switch to the system screen the "Busy updating lists"
- > message is normally there
- >
- >this suggests to me that at certain wall clock times the system software
- >wanders round the system cleaning up memory fragmentation, checking that
- >files are still there and other such activities.
- >
- >The slowdown seems to only happen for a short while on my fully loaded
- >256k Psion 3, but could take longer if the slots are occupied.
-
- Well done, some real research! So it happens every hour at
- half past the hour. Interesting. Not every half hour. BTW
- did you get bored typing away and waiting for it to slow
- down?-)
-
- I wonder how the appointments and alarms mechanism works.
-
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