On Wednesday 17 May 2006 11:14, Alvin Beach wrote:
What I have found is that rug and/or zmd constantly thrashed my laptop. I even edited the /etc/rc.d/novell-zmd file and set the spawning of zmd to priority 19. This allowed me to use the laptop, but as soon as the system was idle, zmd began to thrash again. Very annoying! So, I just uninstalled rug and zmd and now the system works great. I'm not sure what caused them to thrash, I just know that, so far, uninstalling them hasn't broke anything (yet).
Hi All, When I first installed SUSE 10.1, I had problems with the new 'online update' system loading down my system and being very uninformative (i.e. cryptic.) After reading a couple of posts on SLE, I uninstalled the following packages: suseRegister rug zen-updater zmd libzypp-zmd-backend (maybe I kept this one due to dependencies?) Then I added the following installation sources in YaST: Base system: http://{mirror}/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source http://{mirror}/distribution/SL-10.1/non-oss-inst-source The "unofficial" supplementary KDE 3.5.2 'level a' upgrade: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_10.1/yast-source Bug fixes and security patches: ftp://{mirror}/pub/suse/i386/update/10.1 Packman packages repository: http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/10.1 Guru's packages repository: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/10.1 I upgraded KDE to 3.5.2 'level a' and added all the packages I wanted from Packman and Guru. I did all of this manually using YaST's "Software Management" module. Once everything was stable, I reinstalled the previously removed set of new 'online update' packages. Then, from the KDE main menu, I selected 'System' > 'Configuration' and the 'Update Software' program. It launched, loaded in the taskbar and proceeded to refresh the sources. This took about 10 minutes (1.5Mbit/512Kbit ADSL) during which time it consumed, intermittently, 13% to 98% cpu... then it calmed down completely. I 'hover' my mouse pointer over the taskbar icon and it reports "There are no software updates available". I've set it now to load automatically when I boot and log into KDE. It seems to be running correctly now and I'm happy with it. Maybe, immediately after installation, these programs try to accomplish too much, too soon (concurrently, too) spoiling the new user's experience? By performing the software additions and updates manually, I made it possible for these utilities to initialize and run (or 'sync') under a very light load. hth & regards, Carl