I've not seen this behavior before. Just a while ago, I was surfing as usual with konqueror, on an etch system, and closed konqueror. After a while, I noticed that the memory usage was skyrocketing, and so I ran 'top'. There was a process that runs (periodically, I suppose) called kio_http_cache_cleaner, and it was (according to top) consuming nearly 500 megs of virtual memory. I watched it for a short time, thinking how odd this was, so I decided to kill the process from within top.
That part worked, but it seems to have left soem of my cache files in an inconsistent state. The permissions and other information on the files in some cases are extremely odd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.kde/cache-localhost/http$ ls -l total 51 drwx------ 2 dfox dfox 160 2006-10-06 16:00 0 drwx------ 2 dfox dfox 21280 2006-10-06 16:06 a drwx------ 2 dfox dfox 128 2006-10-06 14:01 b ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? c -rw------- 1 dfox dfox 0 2006-10-06 15:54 cleaned drwx------ 2 dfox dfox 240 2006-10-06 15:56 d ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? e I go inside 'a', for instance: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.kde/cache-localhost/http/a$ ls -l | head -10 total 300 -rw-r--r-- 1 dfox dfox 1532 2006-10-05 18:53 -------- ? ? ? ? ? warrenreports.tpmcafe.com_themes_tpmcafe_layout.css_38fa498a ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? warrenreports.tpmcafe.com_themes_tpmcafe_layout.css_38fa498a ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? warrenreports.tpmcafe.com_themes_tpmcafe_layout.css_38fa498a ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? warrenreports.tpmcafe.com_themes_tpmcafe_layout.css_38fa498a ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? warrenreports.tpmcafe.com_themes_tpmcafe_layout.css_38fa498a ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? warrenreports.tpmcafe.com_themes_tpmcafe_layout.css_38fa498a -rw-r--r-- 1 dfox dfox 16982 2006-10-06 10:42 www.aplusdev.org_APlusRefV2_3.html_6b32489c -rw-r--r-- 1 dfox dfox 3127 2006-10-06 10:36 www.aplusdev.org_ARindexindex.html_26caa7f6 -rw-r--r-- 1 dfox dfox 188 2006-10-06 10:36 www.aplusdev.org_Images_blank.gif_4c149b36 -rw-r--r-- 1 dfox dfox 170246 2006-10-06 10:44 www.aplusdev.org_keyboard.html_19c3a676 I somehow can't get that to wrap right, but all the affected files have a single ?-------for their permission field, and ? for all the other fields that ls normally outputs. If I try to remove a file (even as root) I get an error "cannot lstat <blah> : No such file or directory. If I goto the same site I visited yesterday(f.e., warrenreports), as expected, I get new content in the same directory I was in (.kde/cache-localhost/http/a, although I would have expected the content to go under 'w'). Other websites seem to be in the right place, alphabetically, at around the same time I had killed the errant cache cleaner process. Now what? I guess I could just try and empty the cache, but am not sure this would work, because some of the files are not removable. (later) That helped some, and it seems that some of the errant files are no longer there, but still some directories are inaccessible: otal 18 drwx------ 2 dfox dfox 48 2006-10-06 16:34 0 drwx------ 2 dfox dfox 18824 2006-10-06 16:34 a drwx------ 2 dfox dfox 48 2006-10-06 16:34 b ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? c -rw------- 1 dfox dfox 0 2006-10-06 16:28 cleaned drwx------ 2 dfox dfox 48 2006-10-06 16:34 d ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? e OK, but now how to remove 'c' and 'e', or remake them? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]