Stumbled on Solution to One Mystery, Generated More
First of all, sorry for the cross posting, but I'm not sure of the source of the problems (other than myself). SuSE v7.1/KDE3/AMD Athlon/256 MB RAM I couldn't understand why a 21GB partition, that was only a week or so old, should be 80% full. Then I discovered that /var/temp had many, many entries sortnnn.nnnnn (where n is an integer) each 8366493 bytes. When I deleted them the partition usage shrank to 15%. The other thing that I noticed was that the system monitor was showing a high cpu usage although I was only sitting at the monitor watching. What is running in the background, generating all of those sort files, and how do I turn it off? I inadvertantly stumbled on to a solution (perhaps temporary) to one problem, but an fighting some others,. I had a devil of a time getting the system to realize that I was connected to my isp, but finally succeeded by running wvdial in a terminal window (it can't keep the modem connected if I run it as a KDE app). None of the mail clients that I've tried can connect to the mail server at my isp, Netscape, Balsa, KMail - they all claim that they cannot connect to the host. I suspect that is a system problem, rather than the individual app, however if I log on to the mail server at my isp using a browser, both Netscape and Opera work, I can read my mail. I'd like a solution to this problem, I'm getting tired of having to reboot into Win98 just to read mail. Thanks in advance.
Alle 13:47, lunedì 6 maggio 2002, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. ha scritto:
First of all, sorry for the cross posting, but I'm not sure of the source of the problems (other than myself).
SuSE v7.1/KDE3/AMD Athlon/256 MB RAM
I couldn't understand why a 21GB partition, that was only a week or so old, should be 80% full. Then I discovered that /var/temp had many, many entries sortnnn.nnnnn (where n is an integer) each 8366493 bytes. When I deleted them the partition usage shrank to 15%. The other thing that I noticed was that the system monitor was showing a high cpu usage although I was only sitting at the monitor watching. What is running in the background, generating all of those sort files, and how do I turn it off?
Have you read "man ps"? ps is the command to see all the running processes. Moreover, you might want to look at "fuser", as it says what program is accessing a file.
I inadvertantly stumbled on to a solution (perhaps temporary) to one problem, but an fighting some others,. I had a devil of a time getting the system to realize that I was connected to my isp, but finally succeeded by running wvdial in a terminal window (it can't keep the modem connected if I run it as a KDE app). None of the mail clients that I've tried can connect to the mail server at my isp, Netscape, Balsa, KMail - they all claim that they cannot connect to the host.
Does ping work? Can you resolve names? Can you ping IP? What are your error messages when you try to use wvdial from KDE? Praise
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