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From: Andrei Slavoiu <ansla80@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:06:19
Message-Id: 20060129105557.96615.qmail@web31612.mail.mud.yahoo.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory by Rumen Yotov
1 --- Rumen Yotov <gentoo@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
2
3 > On (29/01/06 04:23), Dale wrote:
4 > > Hi,
5 > >
6 > > I have noticed this for a while but can't figure
7 > it out. After I have
8 > > been logged into KDE for a long while, artsd
9 > starts using a LOT of
10 > > memory. Keep in mine this rig has 1GB or ram if
11 > you go by the
12 > > percentage. This is from top:
13 > >
14 > > > top - 04:16:58 up 5 days, 12:31, 5 users, load
15 > average: 1.57, 1.46, 1.21
16 > > > Tasks: 89 total, 3 running, 86 sleeping, 0
17 > stopped, 0 zombie
18 > > > Cpu(s): 1.0% us, 0.7% sy, 97.7% ni, 0.0% id,
19 > 0.0% wa, 0.7% hi,
20 > > > 0.0% si
21 > > > Mem: 1034576k total, 982960k used, 51616k
22 > free, 198168k buffers
23 > > > Swap: 488336k total, 196k used, 488140k
24 > free, 178804k cached
25 > > >
26 > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU
27 > %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
28 > > > 24128 dale -51 0 197m 168m 5420 S 0.0
29 > 16.7 0:31.72 artsd
30 > > > 23763 root 15 0 238m 108m 7108 S 0.7
31 > 10.7 37:15.63 X
32 > > > 5980 dale 15 0 198m 96m 23m S 0.0
33 > 9.5 7:05.07 mozilla-bin
34 > >
35 > >
36 > >
37 > > Why is it using so much memory? Is this a bug
38 > with KDE 3.5 and I need
39 > > to report it? Any ideas at all. Come on Holly,
40 > you have to know
41 > > something about this. LOL
42 > >
43 > > Oh, I can log out and back in, it's back to
44 > normal. I hate logging out
45 > > almost as much as I hate to reboot. I like my
46 > slideshow OK. o_O
47 > >
48 > > What you folks think??
49 > >
50 > > Dale
51 > > :-)
52 > >
53 > > --
54 > > To err is human, I'm most certainly human.
55 > >
56 > > I have four rigs:
57 > >
58 > > 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU,
59 > 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives.
60 > Named Smoker
61 > > 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU,
62 > 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty
63 > > 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU,
64 > 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey
65 > > 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz
66 > CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named
67 > Putput
68 > >
69 > > All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my
70 > desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers.
71 > >
72 > > --
73 > > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
74 > >
75 > Hi Dale,
76 > Recently there were a number of threads about
77 > "arts", most people had disabled 'arts'.
78 > Just put "-arts" in your /etc/make.conf as a USE
79 > flag, then run:"#emerge -N world -av".
80 > There will be all the apps required a recompile but
81 > w/o 'arts' - so hit Enter.
82 > Could use (IIRC) alsa + dmix or as in my case esound
83 > (but it's from Gnome).
84 > In many messages there were a hint about 'arts'
85 > going away from KDE (check Google).
86 > HTH.Rumen
87 >
88 Be aware that if you disable arts you will loose sound
89 notifications from kde programs (most notable kopete).
90 A good workaroud is to let it active but configure all
91 the programs that can use alsa directlly not to use
92 arts. This will slow the growing of arts :)
93 Also, there is no need to logout in order to restart
94 arts, just use `killall arts` when it has grown too big.
95
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Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory "Korondi Márk" <korondi.mark@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net>