On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 11:31:48AM -0400, Charlie wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm running 6.2-RELEASE on two systems (a Pentium 4 and a dual Athlon), and > whenever I log into Xfce4, I notice that a process called "dbus-daemon" is > invoked and eats up 100% of the CPU when no other processes are running. > > If another process is running, dbus-daemon only hogs about 50% of the CPU, > but this is still frustrating. If, for example, I am compiling a port, > dbus-daemon takes about 50% of my CPU time, leaving only half the > processor's time for compiling. > > I am fairly new to xfce, and googling the issue hasn't helped me out. Any > ideas? How can I fix dbus so it doesn't use so much CPU, or how can I > disable it completely? I know it is used for inter-application > communication, but I'm not entirely sure I need it (I don't see any adverse > effects when I kill it manually). > > I don't see anything unusual in /var/log/messages, nor any errors in > ~/.xsession-errors. > > Thanks for the help, > > Charlie
I've run into this before (along with other dbus/Thunar issues) and it was only fixed by building XFCE from source. Installing from the package has always caused problems for me. I run XFCE on three workstations -- though I run -STABLE -- all of them had the same problem. I know, not much help. Cheers, ~Jason _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
