On Thu, 25 Dec 2003, Eli Billauer wrote:
> I have occasional problems with artsd (version 1.0.0, as in RH7.3),
> which stops functioning (i.e. no sound). It also takes 98% of my CPU,
> and a quick look at its /proc entry shows that it has a modest 207 files
> opened, almost all of which are /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Beep_Beep.wav. The
> process is reported running ("R" in ps) and the time consumed entry is
> steadily counting up.
>
> This is a rather common behaviour on my computer. I suppose there is a
> bug in artsd, but that's still not the issue.
>
> The issue is that I can't kill the process. The process number is 11005,
> I go kill -9 11005 as root, and nothing happens (no, there is no process
> number confusion here). This looks like a kernel problem to me (I'm
> using 2.4.21). I mean, is there any normal condition, in which a process
> should *not* be killed as a result of a "9" signal?
I have the same problem with Mandrake 9.1.
The artsd takes up more than 99% of CPU (sometimes). When it
does, it is impossibe to kill, even with kill -9. The only
thing I could to get over it was to (sigh) reboot.
I wonder why this happens, how to avoid it -- now you also
know that kill -9 doesnt work (at least not on my system).
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Shlomo Yona
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