Hello, First lemme thank all u guys for all the help u've provided me over time thru this list.
I'm using a P4 2.2 with 512MB RAM and 256 MB Swap space. OS is Debian 3.0 with KDE 3.0.4 I've got great uptime with my system lasting for weeks (a month usually) on end and mostly it's been me who's rebooted to go to Windows or something like that. The system has crashed though not too frequently. My system has now been up for about one week without a reboot and today I noticed that the system has been very slow i.e. Screen refresh has been very very slow. New programs coming up became slow. At that time the programs running on the comp were - 5 instances of Konqueror, 1 instance of Open Office, 1 instance of KGhostScript, K3B, Wine running Kazaa, Kmerlin,Kmail and Konsole. The SysGuard showed Artsd with the User% of typically 35% or so. I was playing music through K3B which I usually do. How's this so high?? Wat exactly is the User space i.e. the User% being referred to? I've heard a lot of ppl complaining about artsd being very tough on the. Shutting down every software other than KDE and then restarting just Kmail and Kmerlin, improved things a lil but not to the efficiency it was formerly, not even after leaving it on for quite a few hours that way (hoping that maybe any memory leaks would be cleared off by the kernel over time once the buggy process was shut down) It could be a memory leak problem with any one of the applications. Wine is still under development so maybe that's wat caused it. Funny thing is everything was working fine 12 hours earlier when I switched on the 5'th instance of Konqueror to load www.uml.org.....any similar issues known to be caused with konqueror Restarting KDE got everything working just fine. Even if it is a memory related problem caused by a buggy application shouldn't the kernel be able to reclaim the memory once the buggy application is shut down....or was it that KDE itself caused the memory leak and therefore when KDE was restarted all went fine.......has anyone else noticed a similar slowing down of KDE over time?? Thanks for all your help in advance. Bye -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
