On Thursday 24 January 2002 03:43, Robert Tilley wrote: > When other people responded to my posting concerning system usage, I knew > it was a possible issue. Specifically, it is the fact that gkrellm shows > an average of 50% CPU usage when KDE is running, and about 3% when Blackbox > is running which seems to indicate that something about XFree86 is sucking > up system resources. > > An examination of top shows: > > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND > 18412 root 16 -10 112M 52M 23096 S < 27.3 28.3 32:12 XFree86 > 18536 tilleyrw 11 0 10832 9M 8172 S 6.3 5.3 9:04 kdeinit > 18630 tilleyrw 9 0 13696 12M 10992 S 4.8 6.7 0:17 kmail > 18622 tilleyrw 11 0 8136 7660 4388 S 2.8 4.0 4:37 qtella > 18516 tilleyrw 9 0 2788 2272 1992 S 2.1 1.1 1:16 gkrellm > 27957 root 17 0 1028 1028 780 R 1.7 0.5 0:01 top > 18613 tilleyrw 9 0 22868 16M 10948 S 0.9 8.9 1:44 kdeinit > 18617 tilleyrw 9 0 27216 20M 10860 S 0.7 11.1 2:30 kdeinit > 18614 tilleyrw 9 0 7868 7352 6956 S 0.1 3.8 0:02 kdeinit > 18615 tilleyrw 9 0 22028 16M 10688 S 0.1 8.6 0:09 kdeinit > <SNIP> > > This taken during a system lull. I'm tired of having to kill processes to > reduce a 99% system usage. Could any other users recount their experiences > with exhaustive system usage when running KDE? I do experience this sometimes as well, but on my system it's almost always some konqueror instance which is trying to execute a java applet that causes this load. Just to narrow down the problem, what process is this kdeinit in your top listing (konqueror as broswers, konqueor as filemanager) ? cheers, Yven --
Yven J. Leist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.leist.beldesign.de
