On Thursday 25 April 2002 09:21 pm, sda wrote: > Greetings: > > I've just installed Woody and am in the process of setting it up. I have > two issues/problems that I hope this list can help me with. > > 1/ My system hangs periodically, everything freezes. Running, top the > culprit seems to be kupdated. What package do I need to remove, to be rid > of this beast? I assume it's part of KDE [which I don't use anyway] just > need the libs. Has anyone else seen this behaviour? > > 2/ I installed leafnode. I'm used to running and setting it up on other > boxes and I don't like `dpkg configure' setting it up for me - it's not > doing it the way I wish. How do I prevent this tool from configuring it > for me? It does't seem to give one the option to say no... >
to the first question, kupdated isn't related to kde, at all. it's a kernel update daemon which i believe is related to the kernel's monitoring of memory swapping. all i can tell you about with any conviction is that you need it and you don't have a hell of a lot of options on that issue. the more likely culprit is whatever app is initiating the high rate of repetition of kupdated being called on to do its job. other issues are how much swap space did you set up? and how much ram are you working with? swap space is generally best optimized at a minimum of twice your ram, or more, if you can coax the cpu into playing the game you want. getting back to the original issue--the kernel--which iteration of that are you running? consider an upgrade. as for the second--sorry, ain't got no clue, although commonsense suggests to me that you should be able to edit whatever configuration dpkg or anything else generates for you. i hope this relieves some of the frustration. ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
