>From the lack of response the past several months, I have to guess that
either I am the only NetBSD user on the list and that I am the only
blackbox user that has extremely high load averages and blackbox hanging
and crashing problems?
Can anyone share any advice or suggestions on how I can use gdb, truss,
strace or even add debugging code to the blackbox source so I can track
down my high load problems?
My load averages often raise to 7 and above (sometimes around 11 and
above). But if I switch (Blackbox menu -> Others) to another window
manager the load instantly drops and stays (for over 24 hours) at an
acceptable load average of below 0.50. (When I do a BlackBox menu ->
Restart, the load average drops but then slowly rises.)
When blackbox hangs, my cursor is still movable (but can not highlight or
click) but only movable within the dimensions of window is hung in. (Even
if the window it hung in is behind another window, then you can notice by
moving the cursor the outline of the window below.)
I don't want to put the blame on blackbox, but using the same applications
with any over five different window managers I always have a lot lower
load average.
I'll be glad to provide core dumps, gdb analysis of running blackbox or
any other information.
I am now using blackbox 0.61.0 and XFree86 3.3.6 under NetBSD 1.4.2.
With blackbox:
10:19PM up 1 day, 15:12, 1 user, load averages: 1.18, 1.17, 1.52
Blackbox menu -> Others -> icewm
10:20PM up 1 day, 15:14, 1 user, load averages: 0.55, 0.99, 1.42
10:23PM up 1 day, 15:16, 1 user, load averages: 0.19, 0.64, 1.20
I know the above doesn't prove much, but it can give you an idea.
I have noticed that since I haven't ran netscape and kept my Blackbox
Workspaces -> Icons menu closed my load average has stayed below 7. (But
please note: even with these open with another window manager it is very
low.)
I have really enjoyed using blackbox (for two years -- mostly under Debian
Linux) and I want to continue to use it! Can anyone help? I am willing to
debug this problem. Can anyone teach me how?
Jeremy C. Reed
http://www.reedmedia.net/
http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
