-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Since I saw other people complain about X filling the memory, I guess it is all due to either drakconf or rpmdrake. Here are the traces from when drakconf is just started, and after half an hour or so of running (+ I used rpmdrake once.)
As I said, it seems to have something to do with gtk.pm, so that's why I cc Thierry;
Danny
On Saturday 17 August 2002 05:06, Peter Polman wrote:
> On August 16, 2002 05:46 pm, Danny Tholen wrote:
> > It seems that drakconf is eating _a lot_ of recourses when left running
> > idle for half an hour or so. I might need to add that in all cases I
> > tested I had opened rpmdrake from drakconf as well.> >
> > I attached an strace of the process after a few min of running, and when
> > it starts being very slow. The difference seems to be that when it is
> > making the heavy load, it is continuasly doing something with shared
> > memory and tries to read unavailable resources. Resource 3 (which often
> > gets the unavailable) is the gtk.pm
> >
> > I thought it might be because of the new perl threading.
> >
> > Any clues?
> >
> > Danny
>
> I have been getting this for about the last couple of weeks. It appears
> that drakconf eats up CPU cycles while X starts eating up memory. This
> doesn't happen if I start rpmdrake from the command line. I've watched
> drakconf, grpmi and kswap literally grab all available CPU resources and
> make my system totally unusable.
>
> Last night I watched via top, as X slowly increased to about 85 % of
> available memory, (drakconf was doing its thing to the CPU cycles as well)
> before I killed drakconf. The memory usage briefly dropped down to a very
> small (around 9%) percentage and came back up to 50+ %. I logged out of X
> and back in and found that X behaved properly if I stayed away from
> drakconf....
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