Pecular reactions with Rawhide installation

[Rodd Clarkson]

On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 01:48 -0500, Stan Bubrouski wrote:
>Jim Cornette wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>
>Woh.  Clearly there is something going wrong here.  From your 
>description it seems between X, gnome-vfs-daemon, gnome-settings, and 
>nautilus you are using 100% CPU?  This would make everything else crawl. 
>  So now the question is:  Why are these processes running out of control?

That's the question.  After updating to the most recent rawhide
yesterday I've started to see this too.  (I update to rawhide each day
without fear or fail, so it was something on 20050224 that did it I
guess).

The first time I couldn't figure out what it was, but the second time I
found killing gnome-panel fixed it (I'd tried gamin, gnome-vfs-daemon,
gnome-settings-daemon and Nautilus before this.)


I'm not sure if this is related, but I can get a similar (same result)
by doing the following:

1. Open Applications > Accessories > Dictionary
2. Type Role into the Word field and hit enter
3. Click on the hyperlink Roll (this should bring up the meaning of
Roll)

Doing this sends my CPU 100% (about 30% user and 70% system)

Closing the Dictionary fixes this immediately.


Rodd