Wow! thank you Steve,
things are beginning to fall into place. i first noticed the condition
described soon after installation and use. i was curious about
Gnome/Sawfish so i started that desktop and found it gorgeous. but also
very resource intensive. Then, i started looking around to see if i could
find the culprit that was sucking me dry. The machine i've got this
running on is a Celeron 800Mhz Dell box with 128MB of RAM. So it's not an
older machine ill-equipped for the task. i really like the new look and
feel of Gnome/sawfish, but in order to get "any" work done i'm forced to
use IceWM or even KDE which place far less demands on the system.
But i shall definately do as you've suggested.
thank you very much!
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, FLYNN, Steve wrote:
>It's an idle task there to soak up unused CPU cycles. It should run at 100%
>- whatever %ge the rest of the box is using.
>
>It's not actually using the CPU cycles that top shows - it just credited
>with them in the accounting files.
>
>It's not your problem.
>
>> CPU states: 5.3% user, 20.5% system, 0.0% nice, 74.1% idle
>
>You're running at 74.1% idle - plenty of spare cycles on your box, it's
>hardly breaking a sweat.
>
>Now, how do we find your problem - next time this happens, switch to another
>console (Ctrl-alt-F5 for instance) and 'tail -50 /var/log/messages' and post
>the result.
>
>Is there any HD activity on your box when this happens?
>
>Also, I notice that X seems to consuming a hell of a lot of ram on your
>machine - I don't have an Mandrake 8.0 machine here at work, to check but
>I'm sure my box with 256 meg doesn't have 37M sucked up by X!
>
>
>Steve Flynn
>NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst
>* 01603 687386
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Weaver [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 3:10 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [expert] kapm-idled????
>
> Hi list,
>
> there's something strange here on my Mandrake 8.0 box and try as i
>might i
> can't find it to kill it! it seems to be a process of some sort that
>when
> it runs it cripples my system making it impossible to get any work
>done.
> what ever this is it shows up in kpm and top like this:
>
> [kapm-idled]
>
> however, it's anything but "idle". as i said it is crippling my
>system
> when it runs. here is a bit from the top screen showing the
>information as
> it's running:
>
> 10:57am up 20:30, 2 users, load average: 0.44, 1.48, 1.42
> 80 processes: 77 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 5.3% user, 20.5% system, 0.0% nice, 74.1% idle
> Mem: 125600K av, 62400K used, 63200K free, 0K shrd,
>892K
> buff
> Swap: 265032K av, 52372K used, 212660K free
>29892K
> cached
>
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME
>COMMAND
> 3 root 14 0 0 0 0 SW 40.3 0.0 4:36
>kapm-idled
> 1486 root 14 0 48128 37M 4032 R 4.5 30.5 5:07 X
> 4468 mark 12 0 2916 2180 1936 R 1.5 1.7 0:01
>kdeinit
> 1637 mark 9 0 3512 2604 2096 S 1.1 2.0 0:19 kicker
> 1610 mark 9 0 2684 1796 1632 S 0.3 1.4 0:28
>kdeinit
> 4529 mark 11 0 952 940 716 R 0.3 0.7 0:01 top
> 1645 mark 9 0 3180 1732 1580 S 0.1 1.3 0:21
>kdeinit
> 1 root 9 0 104 60 60 S 0.0 0.0 0:04 init
>
> as you can see it runs as a root process but i can't find its origin
>to
> kill the process. left to run long enough it will fill the swap
>space and
> then the only way to recover from this is to reboot the system. This
>has
> been going on since i installed Mdk 8.0 on this machine 7 days ago.
>AFter
> rebooting the machine runs fine. Then, out of nowehere "kapm-idled"
>pops
> up and efectively renders the machine useless until "it" decides to
>stop
> running. "IF" it decides to stop running. Which it has on two
>seperate
> occasions. That is not the norm though with this "diseased" mystery
> process.
>
> Could someone please tell me what this is and how to kill it once
>and for
> all? i've attempted every way and manner available to me that i know
>of
> that you would normally use to stop a process that has gotten away.
>All of
> them have no affect on this one though.
>
> Feel free to email me direct with any information if you so desire.
>
> thanks,
>
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