Pecular reactions with Rawhide installation

[Jim Cornette]

John Ellson wrote:
> Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>> Using an updated rawhide upgrade. I have noticed a few pecular items 
>> with the operation of the system.
>>
>> The system seems to slow down to a snails pace at times and may be 
>> unresponsive. The processor seems to be overburdoned at times and 
>> allows my usual 45 degree temperature for the processor to escelate to 
>> higher than usual temperatures. Today, the temperature got to 80 C and 
>> the system shut itself off. I run acpi.
> 
> 
> 
> CPU temp seems like a good indicator that some process has gotten stuck 
> in a loop and is using 100% cpu.
> Using top will usually show the culprit.
> 
> Last time that was happenning to me it was /usr/bin/esd.   It is 
> impossible to "rpm -e esound" because everything
> claims to depend on it, so my solution was to "mv /usr/bin/esd 
> /usr/bin/esd.broken"  and reboot.   Sound seems to
> work much better now.
> 
> John
> 

Using top to view memory usage, the programs gnome-vfs-daemon, 
gnome-settings, nautilus and X seem to be the leading processes for 
consuming cpu time. I added the cpufrequency control applet to my panel 
and am able to control the cpu frequuency to prevent the 80 C temp then 
shutdown. These listed processes take 28 -32 percent each in usage 
percentage. X takes around 1 to 6.6 percent usage range.

Even though the computer hovers at high speeds, it takes a long while 
for a responsive desktop. lowering the speed does not help or hinder the 
system responsiveness. ESD is not listed in top.

Thanks for the hints regarding top. I'll use it to see what's going on 
when the system is extremely slow. (it responds like a 100 MHz 
processor, on initial startup, but is a 1.5 GHz processor)

Jim

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