On 05/01/2008, Simon Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > In opensuse 10.2, on a dual core 64 bit CPU, I've noticed that the zmd > updater thingy has a sub-process "update-status" which seems to run flat out > from time to time. Typically it will do this immediately after startup, but > it' does it at other times too. The symptoms are that one core of the CPU > starts to run at 100%, and since this is a laptop, inevitably the fan starts > to run flat out and the battery drain goes up a lot. This process seems to > run for a long time (more than 15 minutes). > > This seems wrong to me. I don't know what it's doing exactly, but I assume > it's checking my software versions against some central repository, so one > would assume it should be IO bound looking at the disk or the network for > most of its life. > > Obviously, I "should update to 10.3", but this is a working machine (in the > sense that I make my living using it), so such an exercise isn't trivial and > despite several other "compelling" reasons to do so, I'd really prefer to > avoid doing that at least for a while longer.
If you uninstall ZMD (and its dependencies, you can use yast) you will get opensuse-updater tray applet instead. See http://opensuse-community.org/Repositories/10.2#Disable_ZMD or just remove it in yast -> software management. -- Benjamin Weber -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
