On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:09 PM, David Gerard <dgerard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I can't give logs or traces, but I can give you an anecdote - a year > or so ago, I used Google's original Linux port of Picasa (the one > which comes with its own custom Wine) on Ubuntu Edgy a *lot*. And I > would see explorer.exe using absolutely as much CPU as it could. I > noticed this because my laptop kept heating up to the point where it > shut itself down ... > > (Now I run the Windows version of Picasa under stock Wine ;-) ) Have you tried the latest release of Picasa for Linux? It's still a somewhat old Wine, but it shouldn't behave like that. We (I work on Picasa for Linux) hope to update Picasa for Linux to wine-1.0 sometime this summer. > The symptoms sound similar, I'm wondering if it's related. Nah. The recent runaway explorer.exe was IME-related. > Oh, and explorer.exe's VM footprint was listed in top (which I know is > not entirely accurate) as about a gigabyte. That's normal, not very interesting. RSS footprint is more interesting, as would be strace -p output. - Dan
