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FS#3229 - gnome & 100% use of CPU

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Claudio Riva (Firetux) - Sunday, 25 September 2005, 18:34 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

using gnome in testing I have this problem:
I run it and improvvisaly my computer became slow... if I run "top" I have 3 process that use a lot the CPU

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
15356 firetux 25 0 7712 2212 1852 R 24.2 0.9 1:59.76 gnome-vfs-daemo
15311 firetux 25 0 19320 3944 3488 R 22.9 1.6 2:35.52 gnome-settings-
15349 firetux 25 0 22824 10m 6664 S 22.9 4.1 2:54.97 gnome-panel

but I don't understand if this append when I run a particolar program. Generally I open: gaim, liferea, amule, thunderbird, bmp and firefox
To "solve" the problem I have to close GNOME and open it again
This task depends upon

Closed by  arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Monday, 31 October 2005, 11:41 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  please use fam
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Monday, 26 September 2005, 10:38 GMT
are you using testing in combination with nfs and gamin ?
Comment by Claudio Riva (Firetux) - Monday, 26 September 2005, 14:56 GMT
yes I'm using testing with gamin... I don't know if I'm also using nfs. How can I verify it?
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Monday, 26 September 2005, 18:49 GMT
are you using network mounts ? but not samba?
Comment by Claudio Riva (Firetux) - Monday, 26 September 2005, 20:59 GMT
I don't use network mounts. I installed samba but I don't use it
Comment by Claudio Riva (Firetux) - Tuesday, 27 September 2005, 09:33 GMT
I think the problem is in:
/opt/gnome/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon
Comment by Claudio Riva (Firetux) - Tuesday, 27 September 2005, 15:00 GMT
sometime I have to kill gnome-settings-daemon or gnome-vfs-daemon or gnome-panel
these 3 process have some problem :(
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 28 September 2005, 08:56 GMT
Can you remove gamin and replace it by fam again? If this fixes the problem, then it's a problem with gamin. I've seen this on my box with /home mounted on NFS, which gamin doesn't like. KDE and GNOME get many weird error messages and slowdowns when using gamin on that box.
Comment by Claudio Riva (Firetux) - Wednesday, 28 September 2005, 09:16 GMT
now I try to use fam instead of gamin and I'll let you now
Comment by Claudio Riva (Firetux) - Wednesday, 28 September 2005, 09:22 GMT
I can't use fam :(

[root@p3 ~]# pacman -S fam
:: fam conflicts with gamin. Remove gamin? [Y/n] y

Remove: gamin

Targets: fam-2.7.0-5

Total Package Size: 0.1 MB

Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] y

checking package integrity... done.
error: this will break the following dependencies:
gamin: is required by gnome-menus
gamin: is required by gnome-vfs

[root@p3 ~]#

I can try to recompile fam adding "provide gamin" in the PKGBUILD...what you think?
Comment by Claudio Riva (Firetux) - Wednesday, 28 September 2005, 10:05 GMT
I do it! I'm now using FAM
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Saturday, 01 October 2005, 14:43 GMT
did it fix the problem ?
Comment by Claudio Riva (Firetux) - Sunday, 02 October 2005, 12:27 GMT
using FAM seems to fix the problem, even if rarely famd goes in loop.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 16 October 2005, 15:31 GMT
Gamin seems to be the source of the problem. Haven't seen this on my old install, but I do see it on a fresh install with gamin. Switching to fam fixes the problem.
Comment by Claudio Riva (Firetux) - Sunday, 16 October 2005, 18:35 GMT
What you think about moving gamin from testing to unstable tree?

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