Codeina starts automatically upon gnome login, you can disable by going to System/Preferences/StartUp Applications then uncheck Codeina
Cheers, Iain On 10/30/09 14:17, Sebastien Roy wrote: > After my laptop ran out of physical memory and started swapping like > crazy, I went looking for memory hogs. I then discovered a couple of > python scripts that were constantly running and near the top of RSS > users: > > PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP > 117684 seb 282M 114M sleep 59 0 0:39:18 2.8% firefox-bin/10 > 115952 seb 197M 103M sleep 59 0 0:06:52 0.5% evolution/12 > 104600 seb 372M 102M sleep 59 0 0:11:06 1.4% Xorg/3 > 115955 seb 76M 56M sleep 59 0 0:00:15 0.0% evolution-jescs/2 > 104356 seb 151M 38M sleep 59 0 0:00:02 0.0% isapython2.4/2 > 104750 seb 130M 36M sleep 49 0 0:00:20 0.0% isapython2.4/3 > ... > > One of them is the Gnome deskbar applet. I don't really see how one can > justify using that much memory to display a couple of launcher icons. > That's not the only issue. The other is codeina (!): > > seb:~$ pargs 104356 > 104356: python /usr/bin/codeina.bin -u --sleep 5 > argv[0]: python > argv[1]: /usr/bin/codeina.bin > argv[2]: -u > argv[3]: --sleep > argv[4]: 5 > > I had no idea that codeina had to constantly run. Why? Just in case a > new codec becomes available and I don't waste any second using an older > version? This is quite silly. Shouldn't codeina only be running if > it's actually doing something? Is this a bug? > > -Seb > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
