glen sagers wrote:
>
> Most likely, the arts deamon, which is the KDE 2 sound server, is using this
> processor time. On my laptop, for example, even when idle, artsd uses 45-65%
> of the processor time. To check, press ctrl+escape, kde system guard comes up
> and you can look for the artsd process. I haven't found a solution for this
> except to kill it. Sometimes after a kill and restart it will behave,
> sometimes no. I haven't noticed this on my desktop machine, but perhaps its
> simply so much faster it's unnoticeable. I haven't formally checked yet.
>
> Glen Sagers
>
> Olaf Marzocchi wrote:
>
> > Yesterday I had to compress a big tar archive (350MB) with Bzip2.
> > I launched it from a console inside KDE, then in a second console I
> > launched "top", that told me KDE was using 46% (at least) of the
> > processor's power, and bzip2 45-50%.
> > I thought it was strange, since KDE was doing NOTHING!! that console was
> > the only app running!
> >
> > Could you explain this? One (among many) reasons to switch to Linux is the
> > better use of the power, so what is this?
> >
> > Another (silly) question: I didn't remember how to compress the archive
> > with tar then bzip using a single command line, in order to have only the
> > final .tar.bz2 file in the HD without passing from the .tar file. Could you
> > write it?
There is an excellent example of using tar w/ compression in the Guide:
LAME,
"Linux Administration Made Easy, Chapter 8, Backup and Restore
Procedures."
If you have both CD's for L-M 8.0 it's on the second cd. Also available
at www.linuxdoc.org.
Quote
"The following command will perform a backup of your entire Linux system
onto the ``/archive/'' file system, with the exception of the ``/proc/''
pseudo-filesystem, any mounted file systems in ``/mnt/'', the
``/archive/'' file system (no sense backing up our backup sets!), as
well as Squid's rather large cache files (which are, in my opinion, a
waste of backup media and unnecessary to back up):
tar -zcvpf /archive/full-backup-`date '+%d-%B-%Y'`.tar.gz \
--directory / --exclude=mnt --exclude=proc --exclude=var/spool/squid
.
Don't be intimidated by the length of the command above! As we break it
down into its components, you will see the beauty of this powerful
utility.
The above command specifies the options ``z'' (compress; the backup data
will be compressed with ``gzip''), ``c'' (create; an archive file is
begin created), ``v'' (verbose; display a list of files as they get
backed up), ``p'' (preserve permissions; file protection information
will be "remembered" so they can be restored). The ``f'' (file) option
states that the very next argument will be the name of the archive file
(or device) being written. Notice how a filename which contains the
current date is derived, simply by enclosing the ``date'' command
between two back-quote characters. A common naming convention is to add
a ``tar'' suffix for non-compressed archives, and a ``tar.gz'' suffix
for compressed ones."
> >
> > Thank you
> > Olaf
> >
> > Configuration: Celeron 333A, 128 MB, 6+3 GB HD, SoundBlaster 128 PCI,
> > Realtek Ethernet, i740 video card running at 1024@16bpp, Toshiba CD and LG
> > 8080B CD-RW
> > hda1: win 98, hda5 Linux ReiserFS, hda6 swap, hda7 ReiserFS (/home); hdb1:
> > FAT32 with datas
> >
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