Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 09:22:52 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Mike Harding <mvh@ix.netcom.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.14, wnck-applet, kernel spin Message-ID: <20060509162252.4232D45042@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 May 2006 05:29:05 PDT." <20060509122905.9E9C217175@bsd.mvh>
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> From: Mike Harding <mvh@ix.netcom.com> > Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 05:29:05 -0700 (PDT) > Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org > > > On every machine I have tried 2.14 on so far, wnck-applet seems to > spin up to 100% cpu, and much of the activity seems to be in the > kernel. The UI locks up for several seconds - one way to get this to > happen is to open up a new tab on gnome-terminal. > > If I kill wnck-applet, and restart the killed applets when the > "... has quit unexpectedly" windows pop up, it seems to behave much > better thereafter. The behavior returns once I start a new gnome > session, however... > > Any ideas? Anyone else seeing this? I have seen this with 12.2. It seemed to be tied to starting stuff in my session. In particular, ssh-add seemed likely to trigger it. I have no idea what is causing it. I am now rebuilding all gnome2 dependencies to fix the slow response issue. That might fix this one, too. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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