Mate desktop - appearances soaking up CPU time

2015-07-02 Thread Frank
marks over them. Sorry forgot to mention that after running mate-appearances it hangs around after being closed soaking up almost 100% cpu time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Mate desktop - appearances soaking up CPU time

2015-07-02 Thread Frank
I am running Mate desktop on an updated Debian Sid. Today when I attempted to change themes, I noticed nearly all the themes had big question marks on top of theme in the appearances manager. In addition when I tried to customize a theme all the windows controls, icon themes etc all had question

Problem with cpu time

2012-09-17 Thread Uwe Bolick
Hi, We have observed a strange behaviour on our compute-nodes after the upgrade to squeeze and on new nodes freshly installed with squeeze. All processes running longer than 24.8 days lead to "nonsense" cpu-time. Below is an example output of "ps -u username f" over time:

Re: what program is running find that is taking up so much of my cpu time this morning?

2011-07-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
HI, Juan Sierra Pons wrote: 2011/7/8 Mitchell Laks : ps aux|grep find I think it is /etc/cron.daily/mlocate wichi internally runs updatedb - "update a database for mlocate" Check your /etc/cron.daily/mlocate. If it is mlocate, then you may want to exclude areas from the database. For insta

Re: what program is running find that is taking up so much of my cpu time this morning?

2011-07-08 Thread Juan Sierra Pons
2011/7/8 Mitchell Laks : > > Dear Gurus, > > this morning my computer is very sluggish and top says find is running. > > I did > > ps aux|grep find > > with this output > > root     25307  0.0  0.0  11132   652 ?        SN   07:42   0:00 /bin/sh > /usr/bin/updatedb.findutils > root     25315  0.0

what program is running find that is taking up so much of my cpu time this morning?

2011-07-08 Thread Mitchell Laks
Dear Gurus, this morning my computer is very sluggish and top says find is running. I did ps aux|grep find with this output root 25307 0.0 0.0 11132 652 ?SN 07:42 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/updatedb.findutils root 25315 0.0 0.0 11136 352 ?SN 07:42 0:00 /

Re: How do I provide a particular process with as much CPU time as possible?

2009-07-14 Thread lee
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 09:17:59AM +0200, Wim De Smet wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:54 AM, lee wrote: > > BTW, I've given up attaching the game to a particular CPU and trying > > to mess with the priority/scheduling. That doesn't seem to make it > > faster, but more unresponsive to ke

Re: How do I provide a particular process with as much CPU time as possible?

2009-07-14 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:54 AM, lee wrote: > BTW, I've given up attaching the game to a particular CPU and trying > to mess with the priority/scheduling. That doesn't seem to make it > faster, but more unresponsive to keyboard inputs. I guess LGP just > needs to fix the game. The Windoze vers

Re: How do I provide a particular process with as much CPU time as possible?

2009-07-13 Thread lee
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 01:15:57PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >I doesn't matter much if other processes are running. When the RAID-1 > >is resyncing, it slows it down some, but I can compile a kernel while > >the game is running. > > It sounds like your problem is I/O, not CPU. You mi

Re: How do I provide a particular process with as much CPU time as possible?

2009-07-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
e -20 command >> >> Sorry that's mildly spoken wrong. A normal user can only reduce >> his share of CPU time using nice and you don't want to propose >> running a game as root I hope. > >I can start the game as user and then renice it as root. But renic

Re: How do I provide a particular process with as much CPU time as possible?

2009-07-12 Thread lee
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:25:40AM +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 07:38 +, Joel Roth wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:14:31PM -0600, lee wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > simple question: > > > > > > How do I

Re: How do I provide a particular process with as much CPU time as possible?

2009-07-12 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 07:38 +, Joel Roth wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:14:31PM -0600, lee wrote: > > Hi, > > > > simple question: > > > > How do I provide a particular process with as much CPU time as > > possible? > [snip] > > I only

Re: How do I provide a particular process with as much CPU time as possible?

2009-07-12 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:14:31PM -0600, lee wrote: > Hi, > > simple question: > > How do I provide a particular process with as much CPU time as > possible? [snip] > I only want that game I'm playing to run faster. 1. Start the program using 'nice':

How do I provide a particular process with as much CPU time as possible?

2009-07-10 Thread lee
Hi, simple question: How do I provide a particular process with as much CPU time as possible? Use schedtool and assign it to a particular CPU (core)? Fine, but how do I keep this core free from other tasks? Read /Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt --- fine, this tells me that I can create

Re: SOLVED Re: CPU time

2007-02-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Feb 01, 2007 at 09:22:08AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: I accidentally discovered this morning that Xorg is taking up 25 percent of cpu time when at idle. Is this normal or should I file a bug? I'm running Etch. Gnome Panel Monitors (you know animations for load average and so on) have thi

SOLVED Re: CPU time

2007-02-03 Thread Frank McCormick
> > > > > > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:22:08AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > > > > > > I accidentally discovered this morning that Xorg is taking up > > > > > 25 percent of cpu time when at idle. Is this normal or should > >

Re: CPU time

2007-02-02 Thread Frank McCormick
at Xorg is taking up 25 > > > > percent of cpu time when at idle. Is this normal or should I > > > > file a bug? > > > > > > > > I'm running Etch. > > > > > Gnome Panel Monitors (you know animations for load average and so o

Re: CPU time

2007-02-02 Thread Greg Folkert
te: > > > > > I accidentally discovered this morning that Xorg is taking up 25 > > > percent of cpu time when at idle. Is this normal or should I file a bug? > > > > > > I'm running Etch. > > > > I suppose it depends on what kind of box you

Re: CPU time

2007-02-01 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:33:05 -0500 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:22:08AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > I accidentally discovered this morning that Xorg is taking up 25 > >

Re: CPU time

2007-02-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:22:08AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > I accidentally discovered this morning that Xorg is taking up 25 > percent of cpu time when at idle. Is this normal or should I file a bug? > > I'm running Etch. I suppose it depends on what kind of box y

CPU time

2007-02-01 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I accidentally discovered this morning that Xorg is taking up 25 percent of cpu time when at idle. Is this normal or should I file a bug? I'm running Etch. Thanks -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/

Re: famd using up lots of CPU time

2005-12-28 Thread Yasir Assam
I've noticed that every day (around evening time) famd starts using up lots of CPU time (e.g. 95%, according to top) and it does this for a long time. Is this normal? What's it doing? I do not think so. Restart the daemon and everything is okay. Or stop the daemon. That is what

Re: famd using up lots of CPU time

2005-12-28 Thread Michael Ott
Hello Yasir! > I've got a current version of Etch and I've noticed that every day (around > evening time) famd > starts using up lots of CPU time (e.g. 95%, according to top) and it does > this for a long time. > > Is this normal? What's it doing? I do not

famd using up lots of CPU time

2005-12-28 Thread Yasir Assam
I've got a current version of Etch and I've noticed that every day (around evening time) famd starts using up lots of CPU time (e.g. 95%, according to top) and it does this for a long time. Is this normal? What's it doing? Thanks, Yasir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: famd hogs all CPU time

2005-08-30 Thread Vi Arguelles
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 15:17, Greg Folkert wrote: > Vi, even then it might just not be noticed. I am thinking that you are > not clear as to what FAMD just is. > > --- > Description: File Alteration Monitor > FAM monitors files and directories, notifying interested applications

Re: famd hogs all CPU time

2005-08-30 Thread botio
> > > > Famd on my system sometimes hogged all my CPU time and system > > monitor shows > > it takes about 99% of the cycles. > > I've seen this too, now I use gamin on sid as an alternative to fam and I don't have this problem anymore. also, that'

Re: famd hogs all CPU time

2005-08-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 14:39 -0500, Vi Arguelles wrote: > On Tuesday 30 August 2005 05:46, Saverio Trioni wrote: > > > > Hi. I have the same problem. I don't dare to kill famd but it runs as > > my user. I think it should run as root... Saverio, if it ran as root for managing your stuff... hmm that

Re: famd hogs all CPU time

2005-08-30 Thread Vi Arguelles
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 05:46, Saverio Trioni wrote: > > Hi. I have the same problem. I don't dare to kill famd but it runs as > my user. I think it should run as root... > Mmm, I did it once. I didn't kill it kill it. I just restarted the daemon and all was well. I had no problems, but YMMV. If

Re: famd hogs all CPU time

2005-08-30 Thread Yuri Gorshkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saverio Trioni wrote: > I just observed it happens when I open big documents with evince. Does > it happen to you also? Maybe it's a bug in Evince and should be filed. I don't use Evince (anyway, what's this?) and had encountered that bug one or two

Re: famd hogs all CPU time

2005-08-30 Thread Saverio Trioni
El 25/07/2005, a las 11:27, phyrster escribió: Hi Debianers, Famd on my system sometimes hogged all my CPU time and system monitor shows it takes about 99% of the cycles. I just observed it happens when I open big documents with evince. Does it happen to you also? Maybe it's a b

Re: famd hogs all CPU time

2005-08-30 Thread Saverio Trioni
El 25/07/2005, a las 11:27, phyrster escribió: Hi Debianers, Famd on my system sometimes hogged all my CPU time and system monitor shows it takes about 99% of the cycles. My system configuration is Sarge (mixed with Sid) on an Athlon Tbird. What has caused this problem and how to pin it

famd hogs all CPU time

2005-07-25 Thread phyrster
Hi Debianers, Famd on my system sometimes hogged all my CPU time and system monitor shows it takes about 99% of the cycles. My system configuration is Sarge (mixed with Sid) on an Athlon Tbird. What has caused this problem and how to pin it down? regards bxuef -- dhammapada says

Re: ddclient uses an unreasonable amount of CPU time

2004-12-10 Thread Sam Watkins
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:45:25PM +0100, Andreas Ehn wrote: > I used debconf to configure ddclient and did not change the delay, which > defaults to one minute. There is no "daemon=1m" line > in /etc/ddclient.conf, but /etc/init.d/ddclient runs ddclient with this > command line, which should do it

Re: ddclient uses an unreasonable amount of CPU time

2004-12-08 Thread Andreas Ehn
Wed 2004-12-08 at 16:27 +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 07:17:46PM +0100, Andreas Ehn wrote: > > > I'm using ddclient 3.6.2-3 in Debian Sarge in daemon mode to keep my > > DynDNS.org hostname updated. I have configured it to check the IP > > address of eth0 every minute, but fo

Re: ddclient uses an unreasonable amount of CPU time

2004-12-07 Thread Sam Watkins
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 07:17:46PM +0100, Andreas Ehn wrote: > I'm using ddclient 3.6.2-3 in Debian Sarge in daemon mode to keep my > DynDNS.org hostname updated. I have configured it to check the IP > address of eth0 every minute, but for some reason ddclient uses 10 to > 20 % of the CPU all the t

Re: ddclient uses an unreasonable amount of CPU time

2004-12-07 Thread Andreas Ehn
tis 2004-12-07 klockan 13:50 -0500 skrev Ben Bettin: > I'm using Sarge as well, and have a DynDNS.org custom domain. I've > only been using it for a few days, but the package I'm using is > "ez-ipupdate". It was very easy to setup, and seems to be working > fine. I used ez-ipupdate before I reg

Re: ddclient uses an unreasonable amount of CPU time

2004-12-07 Thread Ben Bettin
I'm using Sarge as well, and have a DynDNS.org custom domain. I've only been using it for a few days, but the package I'm using is "ez-ipupdate". It was very easy to setup, and seems to be working fine. Ben On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 19:17:46 +0100, Andreas Ehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I

ddclient uses an unreasonable amount of CPU time

2004-12-07 Thread Andreas Ehn
Hi, I'm using ddclient 3.6.2-3 in Debian Sarge in daemon mode to keep my DynDNS.org hostname updated. I have configured it to check the IP address of eth0 every minute, but for some reason ddclient uses 10 to 20 % of the CPU all the time. Is there anything that can be done about it? I don't know

artsd (unstable) eating up CPU time?

2003-07-05 Thread Nicos Gollan
Hi... I'm running KDE 3.1.2 from unstable and the artsd that's coming along. The problem is that when running noatun, artsd is eating 15 to 30% CPU time, depending on what type of file I'm playing (generally, high-quality OGG files use more that 128kbit MP3s) and skips badly whe

Re: limiting per user CPU time

1999-04-28 Thread ulisses
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Pere Camps wrote: > Hi! > > Is there any way to do that? I've read ulimit(1), but that only > applies to bash(1) and it's sons (and it can also be changed). Another > option would be automatically nicing p

limiting per user CPU time

1999-04-27 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Is there any way to do that? I've read ulimit(1), but that only applies to bash(1) and it's sons (and it can also be changed). Another option would be automatically nicing proceses that use more CPU time than their quota. TIA! -- p.

cpu time

1998-08-14 Thread Paul Miller
How is the cpu time of a process calculated? Thanks -Paul