On Tuesday, February 21, 2012 06:17:39 AM Kishore did opine:
> On Monday 20 Feb 2012 6:00:15 PM gene heskett wrote:
> > Greetings;
> >
> > I have so far today, killed around 75 copies of /usr/bin/knotify4
> > which is pegging out all 4 cores of my phenom, and running it up to
> > 70C+.
> >
> > Killing all copies (which is puzzling because killall can't find them
> > but htop can) cleans the system up & brings back normal operation.
> >
> > But in half an hour I am back to 4 to 6 copies and a pegged cpu.
> >
> > This seems to go along with an uptime of 10 days or more, currently at
> > 18 days.
> >
> > Is there a permanent fix for this other than switching to (I'd rather
> > just have somebody shoot me) gnome or even (quite a bit better IMO)
> > xfce?
>
> Are KDE sound/notifications working at all when that happens? I have
> noticed that when something underlying fails in the sound system,
> knotify goes crazy.
Incoming mail makes a pong, from kmail, and I believe that was still
working albeit with a hoarse voice, I'd assume because the machine was
pegged out. And as of this morning, only 2 copies are seen and everything
is working nominally. It looks like killing the one clear at the bottom of
the htop listing when sorted by cpu%, may be the reset key. Killing all the
cpu hogs, which took about half an hour because it was often 30 seconds
after sending the top one a signal 9, before htop would recognize another
F9 click. cpu usage didn't fall below 99% until there were only 3 hogs
left on this 4 core box. Killall came back clean on the first call, then
couldn't find any more to kill, while I still had most of a screen full
according to htop.
Each was using about 13% of a cpu when I started, and as I killed them, the
remaining ones just increased their usage. When I was down to one, it was
still using 100% of the core it was on, but was bouncing from core to core.
If it means anything, the running kernel is a BFS enabled kernel, a major
increase in interactivity compared to CFS. Sweet.
Could that be a clue?
Cheers, Gene
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