Dimych wrote:

--- Jonathan Brooks wrote:

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Hi,

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In short, at completely unpredictable time intervals one of either gnome-panel, gnome-settings, gnome-vfs-daemon or nautilus will suddenly jump to using 100% of the CPU (and the system grinds to a halt).

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It should be noted that this is on an AMD64 machine.

Cheers,

Jon

Seems it's not Gnome's problem, but AMD64 port. I've experienced the same behavior in KDE on Opteron. After making the swap partition twice as big as RAM it looks like it's gone. Not sure about the formula, but just try to resize your swap partition.

Hope it'll help Dmitry

Hi Dmitry, Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm already running with 2Gb swap (1Gb RAM). I had a further poke around in the logs and found the following: Oct 17 10:59:31 anat0098 gam_server: *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x000000000051e9d0 *** Oct 17 10:59:35 anat0098 kernel: gam_server[2185]: segfault at 0000000000500000 rip 00002aaaaadbfec7 rsp 00007fffffca4e20 error gamin provides gam_server and would appear to have caused lots of other people grief with Fedora rpm -q gamin -> gamin-0.1.5-5.3 Not sure what's going on here, and would love to be able to report it using SuSE's bugzilla - unfortunately it has a bug, and won't let me log in - AGGHGHGHGGHGH. Not sure how, but it would seem that this is an old bug that's resurfaced - anyone got an idea about how to fix it in SuSE? Best wishes, Jon.