From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 6 23:56:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A95C106567A for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 23:56:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E14958FC12 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 23:56:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id mA6NumsK009608; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 15:56:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 15:56:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 15:56:24 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Roland Smith Message-ID: <20081106235624.GA15686@thought.org> References: <20081105194506.GA18676@thought.org> <20081105195320.GA35044@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081105195320.GA35044@slackbox.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, DNS_FROM_SECURITYSAGE autolearn=no version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: console locked again:: load over 2.00 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:56:33 -0000 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