Re: [expert] Memory Leak?
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:17:15 -0700 Todd Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James wrote on Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 03:36:23PM + : 98% of my CPU.. The program .. VI yep it had been up for about 2 hours and was slowly consuming all my cpu power. Has anyone else noticed this or better yet can anyone else duplicate it. I'd like to know if this is a bug or a one off. I can reproduce this since RedHat version 6.2, but only in an error scenario. 1) ssh to a box. Any box, it doesn't matter. 'vi file' 2) close the window that you ssh'd from (or let it time-out if you ssh'd to a remote box outside of your firewall, ie not on your local lan) 3) ssh back to that box and you'll see that it is consuming 99% CPU I don't have a technical reason why it happens, but it does. (seems to be related to vi losing its controlling terminal). You have to kill -9 it get rid of it. killall -9 vi works too. As for why it did this to you on a still running instance of vi, I'm not sure. A surefire way of finding this in the future is to do a ps ax or ps aux and look for a process with a very high CPU time number. Blue skies... Todd i was able to do this with mcedit as well. sometimes after working with mcedit in a konsole, if i simply close the window without exiting mcedit, it keeps running in the background taking up to 90% of my cpu.. however it doesn't happen every time and i have to try several times to reproduce it. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] LVM or RAID duiring install
Hi, Anyone know how to configure RAID or LVM during a mandrake install? The options are there during diskdrake setup but I've always wondered about how well it works (and my best chance to try it turned out to be hardware raid so I didn't wind up using it) -- Andrew George --- The faster we go, the rounder we get. -- The Grateful Dead Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Memory Leak?
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:17:15 -0700 Todd Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority James wrote on Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 03:36:23PM + : 98% of my CPU.. The program .. VI yep it had been up for about 2 hours and was slowly consuming all my cpu power. Has anyone else noticed this or better yet can anyone else duplicate it. I'd like to know if this is a bug or a one off. I can reproduce this since RedHat version 6.2, but only in an error scenario. 1) ssh to a box. Any box, it doesn't matter. 'vi file' 2) close the window that you ssh'd from (or let it time-out if you ssh'd to a remote box outside of your firewall, ie not on your local lan) 3) ssh back to that box and you'll see that it is consuming 99% CPU I don't have a technical reason why it happens, but it does. (seems to be related to vi losing its controlling terminal). You have to kill -9 it get rid of it. killall -9 vi works too. As for why it did this to you on a still running instance of vi, I'm not sure. A surefire way of finding this in the future is to do a ps ax or ps aux and look for a process with a very high CPU time number. Todd- Found out why it was doing it with an open window Seems to have been related to my problems with X. It seems that at times windows appear to be open but in fact the process controlling them has quietly died without error. Eventually the screen will refresh and the window will disappear. (usually when I come back to that page in my wm and try to do something with it.) I know I'm getting a lot of weird errors of late . thanks for being tolerant. This box is as flakey as win95 right now and I can't afford the time to scrub it back to wood and start it over. James Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-21mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Konqueror has forgottten how to handle ftp sites
All of a sudden, Konqueror (Mandrake 8.2) wants to treat ftp:// urls as files instead of urls and I get an Open dialog box instead fo seeing the remote dirctory. The Konqueror docs offer no help, nor does a search of the mail list archives. Maybe it's because I don't know what to call this problem. Any advice? -- Thanks, Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Fix it until it breaks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] setting up sound in 8.2
I just upgraded my old super 7 based system to a Epox 8K3A / Athlon system. The 8K3A has sound on board and I'm trying to get it going. When I booted for the first time after the upgrade, I ran kudzu and it found the ac97 sound ( and the usb controller) so I thought I was set. I looked under /proc and the pci file contains the sound card. The sound modules load into the kernel as well. However, under the control center, there are no sound cards listed in the hardware and when I try to play a sound file using xmms, it wont even play...when I hit play, it stays at 0:00 seconds... If I am typing in the terminal and I hit backspace too many times, I do get beeps out of the speakers so I think the hardware is fine. Anyone set up ac97 sound recently? The sound howto is extremely outdated and not much help. Darren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Is there a Fasttrack/Promise driver for Linux?
I have 2 mainboards that have an onboard Raid/ATA100 Fasttrack/Promise controller and am wondering if there are drivers yet for it with the 2.4 Kernel? Carl Lindgren C. R. Lindgren Consulting Minneapolis, MN Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] setting up sound in 8.2
On 07 Jul 2002 07:45:04 +1000 Darren King [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority I just upgraded my old super 7 based system to a Epox 8K3A / Athlon system. The 8K3A has sound on board and I'm trying to get it going. When I booted for the first time after the upgrade, I ran kudzu and it found the ac97 sound ( and the usb controller) so I thought I was set. I looked under /proc and the pci file contains the sound card. The sound modules load into the kernel as well. However, under the control center, there are no sound cards listed in the hardware and when I try to play a sound file using xmms, it wont even play...when I hit play, it stays at 0:00 seconds... If I am typing in the terminal and I hit backspace too many times, I do get beeps out of the speakers so I think the hardware is fine. Anyone set up ac97 sound recently? The sound howto is extremely outdated and not much help. Darren Don't know if this will help much but on my box the following modules are loaded. emu10k157984 2 ac97_codec 9568 0[emu10k1] sound57292 0 [emu10k1] soundcore4068 7 [emu10k1 sound] This is the relevant line from /etc/modules.conf alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1 nothing relevant in /etc/modules. Can't tell you what I did, except install 8.2 as on my box it came up from the get go. Oh and I also installed Alsa when I installed the box. Maybe that will help. The rpms I installed are: alsaplayer-0.99.53-1mdk lib alsa1-0.5.10b-1mdk alsa-utils-0.5.10-4mdk James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ftpd question
James wrote: On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 09:58:36 -0400 (EDT) daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Bill Davidson wrote: On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 23:40:43 -0400 daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James wrote: Dark, If I am ever fool enough to say my box is totally secure, then you can just slap me silly and call me Larry Elison, 'cause surely I'm a fool too. James James, that indeed _is_ the double-edged blade that we all dance with isn't it. Our systems are only as secure as we take the time to learn and get things worked out. And yet you still have to balance that out with getting something useful done with your machine. Bill O heavens! thats the easy part. Unreal Tournament run real nice on my system. ;) Security and Productivity are by definition opposite poles on the bar magnet of life. Ask anyone who's trying to fight msec... *grin* James O see...now THERE is a miserable thing that is driving me nuts on my system right now. I'm ready to pull out my friggin hair over the permissions misery that i've been dealing with the last few weeks. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] IEEE1394 Video
Does anyone use 1394 under Linux? I have a Dazzle Hollywood DV Bridge. Under Winblows, I used it as a TV by way of a tiny application: amcap5a.exe. So far, the only thing that remotely resembles it is a program called capture: http://linux4mac68k.free.fr/ieee_1394.htm The libdv portion compiles fine, but I get an error when compiling the main program. Any way to get amcap5a to work under wine (not preferred) or get any application to display video from a 1394 source? Capture isn't required, just displaying so I can use my 19 monitor as a TV... Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ftpd question
On Sat, 06 Jul 2002 17:41:05 -0400 daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority James wrote: On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 09:58:36 -0400 (EDT) daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Bill Davidson wrote: On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 23:40:43 -0400 daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James wrote: Dark, If I am ever fool enough to say my box is totally secure, then you can just slap me silly and call me Larry Elison, 'cause surely I'm a fool too. James James, that indeed _is_ the double-edged blade that we all dance with isn't it. Our systems are only as secure as we take the time to learn and get things worked out. And yet you still have to balance that out with getting something useful done with your machine. Bill O heavens! thats the easy part. Unreal Tournament run real nice on my system. ;) Security and Productivity are by definition opposite poles on the bar magnet of life. Ask anyone who's trying to fight msec... *grin* James O see...now THERE is a miserable thing that is driving me nuts on my system right now. I'm ready to pull out my friggin hair over the permissions misery that i've been dealing with the last few weeks. -- My cure was simple rpm -e msec. Since it's behind the firewall... I can be a little sloppy on this one. James daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
