magnayn
27-10-2007, 05:46 PM
I have been playing with my new Kaiser, after upgrading from a Wizard (Vario on TMO). I'm really impressed with the hardware - it's a nice little handset, loads of features; slightly short battery life, but that's partially down to the 3G and unlimited dataplan meaning it gets more use.
However. The bad is that WM6 is just as much sucky crap as WM5 was. My Wizard always had this 'some days it's quick, some days it's slow' thing going on, and now the Kaiser seems to be doing the same. Wondering whether it's something I installed (skype seemed to want a reboot - on a mobile?!?!), I went in hunt of something to diagnose it. I found an excellent little FdcSoft task manager (v2.7).
Now I don't have any baseline to compare it with, but I look at device.exe (which I assume to be the kernel given its size) and find it's running *181* threads. So I reboot the handset, only to find it's still running *177* threads.
Is this normal? What in the name of bejeezus is a *mobile phone* doing running 177 threads? That's >100 more than the most multithreaded process on my main windows box, and it runs things like IIS and SQL*Server! This is on top of the further 57 threads in services.exe, and another 26 in gwes.exe.
This seems to me to be wrong. Or is WM6 still really that bad that it needs >250 threads running on a phone doing nothing?
However. The bad is that WM6 is just as much sucky crap as WM5 was. My Wizard always had this 'some days it's quick, some days it's slow' thing going on, and now the Kaiser seems to be doing the same. Wondering whether it's something I installed (skype seemed to want a reboot - on a mobile?!?!), I went in hunt of something to diagnose it. I found an excellent little FdcSoft task manager (v2.7).
Now I don't have any baseline to compare it with, but I look at device.exe (which I assume to be the kernel given its size) and find it's running *181* threads. So I reboot the handset, only to find it's still running *177* threads.
Is this normal? What in the name of bejeezus is a *mobile phone* doing running 177 threads? That's >100 more than the most multithreaded process on my main windows box, and it runs things like IIS and SQL*Server! This is on top of the further 57 threads in services.exe, and another 26 in gwes.exe.
This seems to me to be wrong. Or is WM6 still really that bad that it needs >250 threads running on a phone doing nothing?