Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory
On (29/01/06 04:23), Dale wrote: Hi, I have noticed this for a while but can't figure it out. After I have been logged into KDE for a long while, artsd starts using a LOT of memory. Keep in mine this rig has 1GB or ram if you go by the percentage. This is from top: top - 04:16:58 up 5 days, 12:31, 5 users, load average: 1.57, 1.46, 1.21 Tasks: 89 total, 3 running, 86 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 1.0% us, 0.7% sy, 97.7% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.7% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 1034576k total, 982960k used,51616k free, 198168k buffers Swap: 488336k total, 196k used, 488140k free, 178804k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 24128 dale -51 0 197m 168m 5420 S 0.0 16.7 0:31.72 artsd 23763 root 15 0 238m 108m 7108 S 0.7 10.7 37:15.63 X 5980 dale 15 0 198m 96m 23m S 0.0 9.5 7:05.07 mozilla-bin Why is it using so much memory? Is this a bug with KDE 3.5 and I need to report it? Any ideas at all. Come on Holly, you have to know something about this. LOL Oh, I can log out and back in, it's back to normal. I hate logging out almost as much as I hate to reboot. I like my slideshow OK. o_O What you folks think?? Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Hi Dale, Recently there were a number of threads about arts, most people had disabled 'arts'. Just put -arts in your /etc/make.conf as a USE flag, then run:#emerge -N world -av. There will be all the apps required a recompile but w/o 'arts' - so hit Enter. Could use (IIRC) alsa + dmix or as in my case esound (but it's from Gnome). In many messages there were a hint about 'arts' going away from KDE (check Google). HTH.Rumen pgpPOARscRACF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory
--- Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (29/01/06 04:23), Dale wrote: Hi, I have noticed this for a while but can't figure it out. After I have been logged into KDE for a long while, artsd starts using a LOT of memory. Keep in mine this rig has 1GB or ram if you go by the percentage. This is from top: top - 04:16:58 up 5 days, 12:31, 5 users, load average: 1.57, 1.46, 1.21 Tasks: 89 total, 3 running, 86 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 1.0% us, 0.7% sy, 97.7% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.7% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 1034576k total, 982960k used,51616k free, 198168k buffers Swap: 488336k total, 196k used, 488140k free, 178804k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 24128 dale -51 0 197m 168m 5420 S 0.0 16.7 0:31.72 artsd 23763 root 15 0 238m 108m 7108 S 0.7 10.7 37:15.63 X 5980 dale 15 0 198m 96m 23m S 0.0 9.5 7:05.07 mozilla-bin Why is it using so much memory? Is this a bug with KDE 3.5 and I need to report it? Any ideas at all. Come on Holly, you have to know something about this. LOL Oh, I can log out and back in, it's back to normal. I hate logging out almost as much as I hate to reboot. I like my slideshow OK. o_O What you folks think?? Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Hi Dale, Recently there were a number of threads about arts, most people had disabled 'arts'. Just put -arts in your /etc/make.conf as a USE flag, then run:#emerge -N world -av. There will be all the apps required a recompile but w/o 'arts' - so hit Enter. Could use (IIRC) alsa + dmix or as in my case esound (but it's from Gnome). In many messages there were a hint about 'arts' going away from KDE (check Google). HTH.Rumen Be aware that if you disable arts you will loose sound notifications from kde programs (most notable kopete). A good workaroud is to let it active but configure all the programs that can use alsa directlly not to use arts. This will slow the growing of arts :) Also, there is no need to logout in order to restart arts, just use `killall arts` when it has grown too big. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory
On Sunday 29 January 2006 11:55, Andrei Slavoiu wrote: --- Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (29/01/06 04:23), Dale wrote: Hi, I have noticed this for a while but can't figure it out. After I have been logged into KDE for a long while, artsd starts using a LOT of memory. Keep in mine this rig has 1GB or ram if you go by the percentage. This is from top: top - 04:16:58 up 5 days, 12:31, 5 users, load average: 1.57, 1.46, 1.21 Tasks: 89 total, 3 running, 86 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 1.0% us, 0.7% sy, 97.7% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.7% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 1034576k total, 982960k used,51616k free, 198168k buffers Swap: 488336k total, 196k used, 488140k free, 178804k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 24128 dale -51 0 197m 168m 5420 S 0.0 16.7 0:31.72 artsd 23763 root 15 0 238m 108m 7108 S 0.7 10.7 37:15.63 X 5980 dale 15 0 198m 96m 23m S 0.0 9.5 7:05.07 mozilla-bin Why is it using so much memory? Is this a bug with KDE 3.5 and I need to report it? Any ideas at all. Come on Holly, you have to know something about this. LOL Oh, I can log out and back in, it's back to normal. I hate logging out almost as much as I hate to reboot. I like my slideshow OK. o_O What you folks think?? Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Hi Dale, Recently there were a number of threads about arts, most people had disabled 'arts'. Just put -arts in your /etc/make.conf as a USE flag, then run:#emerge -N world -av. There will be all the apps required a recompile but w/o 'arts' - so hit Enter. Could use (IIRC) alsa + dmix or as in my case esound (but it's from Gnome). In many messages there were a hint about 'arts' going away from KDE (check Google). HTH.Rumen Be aware that if you disable arts you will loose sound notifications from kde programs (most notable kopete). A good workaroud is to let it active but configure all the programs that can use alsa directlly not to use arts. This will slow the growing of arts :) Also, there is no need to logout in order to restart arts, just use `killall arts` when it has grown too big. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com No, you can disable arts without lose systemsounds. Just check kcontrol - Sound Multimedia - System Notifications, then go to the right bottom, button called Player Settings, click on it, choose external player (second button), and type /usr/bin/ogg123 It works fine, and you can disable arts -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory
Andrei Slavoiu wrote: Be aware that if you disable arts you will loose sound notifications from kde programs (most notable kopete). A good workaroud is to let it active but configure all the programs that can use alsa directlly not to use arts. This will slow the growing of arts :) Also, there is no need to logout in order to restart arts, just use `killall arts` when it has grown too big. If I kill artsd how do I restart it? I like all the sounds. It makes a sound when I do anything, except move the mouse or hit a key on the keyboard. I just like it. Maybe they will phase it out later on. I have read where people were moving away from arts I just didn't know why. I only started having this with KDE 3.5 though. Dale :-) :-) Now to fix this pesky circle for dbus, hal and ivman. -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory
On Sunday 29 January 2006 11:23, Dale wrote: Oh, I can log out and back in, it's back to normal. I hate logging out almost as much as I hate to reboot. I like my slideshow OK. o_O so just kill it ... killall -9 artsd artsd or something like that. Why log out if you can kill it? And why using arts or any other sound daemon at all? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 11:23, Dale wrote: Oh, I can log out and back in, it's back to normal. I hate logging out almost as much as I hate to reboot. I like my slideshow OK. o_O so just kill it ... killall -9 artsd artsd or something like that. Why log out if you can kill it? And why using arts or any other sound daemon at all? Me likes a lot of noise. LOL I have all the sounds turned on I think. Maybe I can go find some more to turn on. O_O Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory
--- Korondi Márk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, you can disable arts without lose systemsounds. Just check kcontrol - Sound Multimedia - System Notifications, then go to the right bottom, button called Player Settings, click on it, choose external player (second button), and type /usr/bin/ogg123 It works fine, and you can disable arts I didn't see that button before :D Anyway, some sounds are in wav format so it's better to use /usr/bin/play (part of sox). And for some reason this does not work for me, I still get no sound. I'll have to investigate this. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory
Andrei Slavoiu wrote: --- Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I kill artsd how do I restart it? It will be started automaticaly when a program needs it. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Cool. Let's see what happens when it starts chewing up my ram again. Dale :-) Parden me while I go say hello to Mr Bubble. -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory
On Sunday 29 January 2006 12:35, Dale wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 11:23, Dale wrote: Oh, I can log out and back in, it's back to normal. I hate logging out almost as much as I hate to reboot. I like my slideshow OK. o_O so just kill it ... killall -9 artsd artsd or something like that. Why log out if you can kill it? And why using arts or any other sound daemon at all? Me likes a lot of noise. LOL I have all the sounds turned on I think. Maybe I can go find some more to turn on. O_O well, I hate noise, but for mixed sound sound daemons are not needed. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory
On 29 January 2006 13:13, Dale wrote: If I kill artsd how do I restart it? Actually, you can got the Control Center - Sound Muldimedia - Sound System. You switch it off and then on again. ;-) Maybe they will phase it out later on. It will not make it into KDE 4. The main developper dropped out. Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
