I noticed that my system used to be very slow. I used top-command and noticed that I had multible solarwinds processes running and they were eating all of my resouces.
I am using newest uptodate cooker with gnone with XScreensaver enabled and I have selected solarwinds gl-module.
Because I was using my system, the xscreensaver were stopped and therefore I think that all solarwind processes should also have been killed, which was however not the case.
Here is my top-output
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ Command
3535 lamikr 19 10 2016 2016 1468 R 7.1 0.4 9:01.54 solarwinds
3515 lamikr 20 10 2308 2308 1452 R 6.7 0.4 18:59.68 solarwinds
3517 lamikr 20 10 2072 2072 1468 R 6.7 0.4 18:22.76 solarwinds
3597 lamikr 17 10 2308 2308 1452 R 6.7 0.4 1:29.33 solarwinds
3600 lamikr 17 10 1996 1996 1452 R 6.7 0.4 1:08.49 solarwinds
3603 lamikr 17 10 1996 1996 1452 R 6.7 0.4 0:49.14 solarwinds
3606 lamikr 17 10 1996 1996 1452 R 6.7 0.4 0:30.79 solarwinds
3512 lamikr 19 10 2340 2340 1452 R 6.4 0.5 20:24.38 solarwinds
3580 lamikr 17 10 2340 2340 1452 R 6.4 0.5 1:52.43 solarwinds
3538 lamikr 17 10 2340 2340 1452 R 6.1 0.5 8:26.57 solarwinds
3575 lamikr 17 10 2308 2308 1452 R 6.1 0.4 2:16.31 solarwinds
3529 lamikr 17 10 2072 2072 1468 R 5.8 0.4 10:27.01 solarwinds
3532 lamikr 17 10 2300 2300 1452 R 5.8 0.4 9:41.69 solarwinds
3540 lamikr 17 10 2016 2016 1468 R 5.8 0.4 7:51.69 solarwinds
3558 lamikr 17 10 1996 1996 1452 R 5.8 0.4 7:46.54 solarwinds
3672 lamikr 15 0 968 968 752 R 1.9 0.2 0:00.22 top
3612 lamikr 9 0 12972 12m 7024 S 1.3 2.5 0:05.57 gnome-terminal
I rebooted the my computer just for safe and was able to reproduce the problem very easily.
1) Boot to gnome
2) Enable XScreensaver and select solarwinds
3) Let the screensaver start and run for a while
4) Activate computer so that xsreensaver deactivates
5) Use top and notice solarwinds processes
My system is following:
Mandrake cooker,
kernel-2.4.21.pre2.1mdk-1-1mdk (acpi off)
xscreensaver-4.06-3mdk
rss_glx-0.7.0-1mdk (from contribs, I think that that includes solarwinds module)
AMD K6-3 400 mhz
Nvidia TNT2
I am not sure whether I should create a bug from this because the problem may as well be in the contrib-package than in the xcreensaver itself...
Mika
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