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Caram
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11 years ago

Datastore sync effects on temperature/energy

During testing this morning on an iPhone, I notice the device's temperature was keeping unusually cool. The iPhone was in silent mode. When I performed this kind of testing in the past, network was a...
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Caram
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

Yes, plenty of active work, creating and deleting datastores, create and deleting tables, creating and deleting records, but not too many of them each time but fairly regularly (and yes, I have at least 2 observers active at once). The only difference with my normal testing sessions is that "silent mode" was on, so no network traffic could occur. This leads me to suspect that the heat I usually feel is due to heavy network traffic (and possibly the CPU processing by the background Datastore SDK threads). If this was purely due to heavy processing in the app, the CPU would heat up also in "silent mode".

Have you ever done any energy profiling on the SDK using Xcode 6 ? It might be worth a try.

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