On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 04:21:28PM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > On 22-03-2015 13:00, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Just a note that I managed to build and install it by dropping back > > to runlevel 3, using icewm. The failed builds had been from within > > kdm. > > > Thanks for the update, ĸen. > > I'll try to keep this in mind: runlevel 3, using icewm. > Just in case anybody thinks there is something special about icewm in this context: any minimal windowmanager would do. I have not willingly used twm for a long time, so my options for a lightweight WM are fluxbox (very lightweight, but lacks panel apps for CPU and network load) and fluxbox. The real problem is that, on _that_ box, kdm/kwin use plasma which takes 18% to 20% of a CPU (with ondemand cpufreq) the way _I_ have it configured (different backgrounds on each desktop probably doesn't help). I still have no idea why that amount of CPU usage would cause a problem. It is also _possible_ that for some obscure reason the "32-bit" patch (applied to x86_64) was what made the difference.
For the moment, I have no interest in retrying any of the variations: leaving the box drawing about 80 watts for 9+ hours when I already have the programs (and using another machine during that will eventually cause spurious pasting when I return to the slow box, because of "irregularities" with my keyboard-video-mouse switch) so it ain't going to happen. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
