--- Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On (29/01/06 04:23), Dale wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have noticed this for a while but can't figure > it out. After I have > > been logged into KDE for a long while, artsd > starts using a LOT of > > memory. Keep in mine this rig has 1GB or ram if > you go by the > > percentage. This is from top: > > > > > top - 04:16:58 up 5 days, 12:31, 5 users, load > average: 1.57, 1.46, 1.21 > > > Tasks: 89 total, 3 running, 86 sleeping, 0 > stopped, 0 zombie > > > Cpu(s): 1.0% us, 0.7% sy, 97.7% ni, 0.0% id, > 0.0% wa, 0.7% hi, > > > 0.0% si > > > Mem: 1034576k total, 982960k used, 51616k > free, 198168k buffers > > > Swap: 488336k total, 196k used, 488140k > free, 178804k cached > > > > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU > %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > > > 24128 dale -51 0 197m 168m 5420 S 0.0 > 16.7 0:31.72 artsd > > > 23763 root 15 0 238m 108m 7108 S 0.7 > 10.7 37:15.63 X > > > 5980 dale 15 0 198m 96m 23m S 0.0 > 9.5 7:05.07 mozilla-bin > > > > > > > > Why is it using so much memory? Is this a bug > with KDE 3.5 and I need > > to report it? Any ideas at all. Come on Holly, > you have to know > > something about this. LOL > > > > Oh, I can log out and back in, it's back to > normal. I hate logging out > > almost as much as I hate to reboot. I like my > slideshow OK. o_O > > > > What you folks think?? > > > > Dale > > :-) > > > > -- > > To err is human, I'm most certainly human. > > > > I have four rigs: > > > > 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, > 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. > Named Smoker > > 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, > 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty > > 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, > 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey > > 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz > CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named > Putput > > > > All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my > desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > Hi Dale, > Recently there were a number of threads about > "arts", most people had disabled 'arts'. > Just put "-arts" in your /etc/make.conf as a USE > flag, then run:"#emerge -N world -av". > There will be all the apps required a recompile but > w/o 'arts' - so hit Enter. > Could use (IIRC) alsa + dmix or as in my case esound > (but it's from Gnome). > In many messages there were a hint about 'arts' > going away from KDE (check Google). > HTH.Rumen > Be aware that if you disable arts you will loose sound notifications from kde programs (most notable kopete). A good workaroud is to let it active but configure all the programs that can use alsa directlly not to use arts. This will slow the growing of arts :) Also, there is no need to logout in order to restart arts, just use `killall arts` when it has grown too big.
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