After the Preware 0.9.4 release, which included Applications, Themes, and Patches, and offers over 670 homebrew packages for installation, we (webos-internals.org) Â started getting reports of the Palm App Catalog “hanging” the user interface for 30 seconds or more when the installation of a new application is initiated, but only when the Package Manager Service (the service which does all the Linux-level work for the Preware front-end) was installed.
After some analysis, I found that disabling all the feeds in Preware reduced the “hang” from more than 30 seconds to less than a second.
Looking through the output of ‘dbus-util –capture’ showed that the “hang” was during the call to the queryInstallCapacity method of the com.palm.appinstaller service, the routine that the Palm App Catalog application uses to determine whether there is enough space to install a new application from the Palm App Catalog. Â Yes, this is the method which is at the heart of the dreaded “Too many applications” errors that people are seeing when they have a number of homebrew applications installed and try to inst