On Sunday 29 January 2006 11:55, Andrei Slavoiu wrote:
> --- Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On (29/01/06 04:23), Dale wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have noticed this for a while but can't figure
> >
> > it out. After I have
> >
> > > been logged into KDE for a long while, artsd
> >
> > starts using a LOT of
> >
> > > memory. Keep in mine this rig has 1GB or ram if
> >
> > you go by the
> >
> > > percentage. This is from top:
> > > > top - 04:16:58 up 5 days, 12:31, 5 users, load
> >
> > average: 1.57, 1.46, 1.21
> >
> > > > Tasks: 89 total, 3 running, 86 sleeping, 0
> >
> > stopped, 0 zombie
> >
> > > > Cpu(s): 1.0% us, 0.7% sy, 97.7% ni, 0.0% id,
> >
> > 0.0% wa, 0.7% hi,
> >
> > > > 0.0% si
> > > > Mem: 1034576k total, 982960k used, 51616k
> >
> > free, 198168k buffers
> >
> > > > Swap: 488336k total, 196k used, 488140k
> >
> > free, 178804k cached
> >
> > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU
> >
> > %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> >
> > > > 24128 dale -51 0 197m 168m 5420 S 0.0
> >
> > 16.7 0:31.72 artsd
> >
> > > > 23763 root 15 0 238m 108m 7108 S 0.7
> >
> > 10.7 37:15.63 X
> >
> > > > 5980 dale 15 0 198m 96m 23m S 0.0
> >
> > 9.5 7:05.07 mozilla-bin
> >
> > > Why is it using so much memory? Is this a bug
> >
> > with KDE 3.5 and I need
> >
> > > to report it? Any ideas at all. Come on Holly,
> >
> > you have to know
> >
> > > something about this. LOL
> > >
> > > Oh, I can log out and back in, it's back to
> >
> > normal. I hate logging out
> >
> > > almost as much as I hate to reboot. I like my
> >
> > slideshow OK. o_O
> >
> > > What you folks think??
> > >
> > > Dale
> > >
> > > :-)
> > >
> > > --
> > > To err is human, I'm most certainly human.
> > >
> > > I have four rigs:
> > >
> > > 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU,
> >
> > 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives.
> > Named Smoker
> >
> > > 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU,
> >
> > 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty
> >
> > > 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU,
> >
> > 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey
> >
> > > 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz
> >
> > CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named
> > Putput
> >
> > > All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my
> >
> > desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers.
> >
> > > --
> > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> >
> > Hi Dale,
> > Recently there were a number of threads about
> > "arts", most people had disabled 'arts'.
> > Just put "-arts" in your /etc/make.conf as a USE
> > flag, then run:"#emerge -N world -av".
> > There will be all the apps required a recompile but
> > w/o 'arts' - so hit Enter.
> > Could use (IIRC) alsa + dmix or as in my case esound
> > (but it's from Gnome).
> > In many messages there were a hint about 'arts'
> > going away from KDE (check Google).
> > HTH.Rumen
>
> Be aware that if you disable arts you will loose sound
> notifications from kde programs (most notable kopete).
> A good workaroud is to let it active but configure all
> the programs that can use alsa directlly not to use
> arts. This will slow the growing of arts :)
> Also, there is no need to logout in order to restart
> arts, just use `killall arts` when it has grown too big.
>
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No, you can disable arts without lose systemsounds.
Just check kcontrol -> Sound & Multimedia -> System Notifications, then go to
the right bottom, button called Player Settings, click on it, choose external
player (second button), and type /usr/bin/ogg123
It works fine, and you can disable arts
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