On Wednesday 19 May 2010 00:49:16 Greg Freemyer wrote:
OS 11.2 KDE from the stable repo (KDE 4.2.2)
That would be 4.3.5 surely?
I was semi-screwing around and opened my trash in Dolphin.
I saw a few old directories I had "moved to trash" some time ago. They were relatively simple trees, but likely had a thousand or so files in the subdirs.
For whatever reason, I right click deleted them from trash.
My poor machine almost came to a stand still after a few minutes. I had to cntr-alt-F2 to get a new text console up and login. Even that took a minute or so for it to ask me for my password.
I ran top and it showed kio_trash using 700MB of RAM. Seems a bit excessive for what it does. And obviously I swapping furiously.
"ps -ef| grep kio_trash" showed dozens of programs running, but only 3 of them were actually kio_trash. For the others kio_trash was in the command args somewhere.
So I did "ps -ef | grep kio_trash | less" and identified the instance of kio_trash that had started when I was messing with my trash. I did a simple kill of it.
After a minute or two, my system was usable again.
I'm not real anxious to try this again to see if its repeatable.
Interesting story but I'm missing the details. What were these extra processes with kio_trash in the commandline? "kdeinit: kio_trash" or something else. A backtrace of the kio_trash that was eating all the ram would be nice too. Will -- Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org