Am Freitag, 28. Dezember 2001 14:10 schrieb Jarno Elonen: > Hi, > > My system with KDE 2.2 on Debian unstable is demonstrating some quite > irritating behaviour: > > It works very well except that periodically, about after two hours of use > or so, it suddenly starts crunching the disk as if swapping heavily. > > In about a minute or two every UI process is suffocated and for example the > KDE clock, mouse pointer, text mode console and SSH daemon (even on nice > level -19!) stop responding completely. > > This goes on about 5-10 minutes after which everything either comes back to > normal or (sometimes) a few processes (like desktop, konqueror or kwin) > have died of insufficient memory. I guess kernel runs out of swap space and > then gives up. > > TOP doesn't show any process hogging memory once the hard disk starts to > roll. Possibly a kernel incompatibility with some part of KDE? > > > Any ideas on how to start debugging this? > Find out which process is doing it and attach gdb to it and get me a backtrace. I don't know if debug symbols are enabled in your build.
This really sounds like the QClipboard bug. Do you run klipper? Could you try running it without klipper regards Holger > > Some version info: > > + Celeron 300 Mhz > + 128 MB of memory > + Linux 2.4.13 i686 > + KDE 2.2 > + libqt2 2.3.1-17 > + libqt2-mt 2.3.1-17 (no -gl) > + XFree86 4.1.0.1 > + Diamon viper 550 (TNT 1 variant) > + NVidia-GLX 1.0.1512-2 > + NVidia-kernel 2.4.13_1.0.1541-3_i386 > > - Jarno
