Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 15:56:24 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: console locked again:: load over 2.00 Message-ID: <20081106235624.GA15686@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20081105195320.GA35044@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20081105194506.GA18676@thought.org> <20081105195320.GA35044@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 08:53:20PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:45:10AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > Hey guys, > > > > Any ideas *why* my load is so high when my desktop wasn't touched for > > 9, 10 hours? I was running mostly KDE3 konsoles, and had a few other > > processes going, the apps iconisized. The server is still running; > > I've killed everything I can think of to reduce the load. It may be > > that the screen won't come back if the load is > 1.00. I'm upgrading > > my kernel to see if *that* has any effect. O/wise, I'm out of ideas. > > Try leaving 'top -SI' running in a console window. That should tell you what > the culprit is. > Looks like gnome-xscreensaver went nutso after several hours. This morning I found my FreeBSD screen about a third full of green and yellow "fuzz" or "blur." This time, I KVM'd over to ubuntu and did a shutdown and reboot at once; then killed the screen saver after getting back into KDE3. I was just listening to KMplayer and watching sites with required kde-gnash. When I Closed[*] the sites and killed the newscast, my load was still > 1.50 so I did a killall of the kde-gnash. Needs to be some way of controlling the number of kde-gnashes that are spawned. After the killall, xload shows my load back down to practically nothing. --Still having trouble with *firefox* + flash, but that's another rat's nest..... gary [*] iconizied > Roland > -- > R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ > [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] > pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org
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