[S.u.S.E. Linux] Tkman in SuSe 5.1
I am still learning Linux. I have fvwm95 running fairly well and am trying various programs on the 5.1 disk set. I started TkDesk and then Tkman. When Tkman came up it said that it was updating the database. 26 HOURS later it was still not done! At that time according to the little performance monitor it was using 100 I hear all this talk about how much faster Linux is than W95, but I have NEVER has a process take 26 hours on any W95 machine I have. The box in question is a Cyrix NX586-90 with 32M, 64M swap and a HP 1.3Gig HD. What was it doing for 26 hours? Jim -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Hi! Trying to kill the keyboard, alfiesty@chaffee.net produced:
I am still learning Linux. I have fvwm95 running fairly well and am trying various programs on the 5.1 disk set. I started TkDesk and then Tkman. When Tkman came up it said that it was updating the database. 26 HOURS later it was still not done! At that time according to the little performance monitor it was using 100
My god, you *have* patience. Killing it was the correct thing to do. The 100% CPU is normal ... nothing else was runnung, so it got 100% CPU and used it. The memory and swap point to a memory leak ...
Now I hear all this talk about how much faster Linux is than W95, but I have NEVER has a process take 26 hours on any W95 machine I have.
Well, I have yet to see a win9x to run stable for 26 hours while a process is actually running. (See? It works both ways.) Anyway I/we do not have to defend Linux, after all: "We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." (Linus Torvalds about the superiority of Linux on the Amterdam Linux Symposium) (If you think closely about this anecdote, you'll probably see the error the program has/had. And your voided attack on Linux.) -Wolfgang -- PGP 2 welcome: Mail me, subject "send PGP-key". If you've nothing at all to hide, you must be boring. Unsolicited Bulk E-Mails: *You* pay for ads you never wanted. Is our economy _that_ weak we have to tolerate SPAMMERS? I guess not. -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
At 09:23 PM 4/22/98 +0200, probably while laughing his ass off at this stupid newbie Wolfgang wrote:
Hi!
Well, I have yet to see a win9x to run stable for 26 hours while a process is actually running. (See? It works both ways.)
I do most of my keyboard stuff in my house while attached to the Linux machine in my shop through X. the machine in the house MUST be Win95 because I program in Visual Basic and NT won't run on a NX586. This machine which has a continious Xwindow running and visual basic most of the time has not been re-booted in more than 2 months. AND that was to ad a new pccard. Jim -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Hi! Trying to kill the keyboard, alfiesty@chaffee.net produced:
At 09:23 PM 4/22/98 +0200, probably while laughing his ass off at this stupid newbie Wolfgang wrote:
Not laughing ...
Well, I have yet to see a win9x to run stable for 26 hours while a process is actually running. (See? It works both ways.)
I do most of my keyboard stuff in my house while attached to the Linux machine in my shop through X. the machine in the house MUST be Win95 because I program in Visual Basic and NT won't run on a NX586.
Well, if you _have to_[1] program in VB, it cannot be helped ... though I hear there's an emulator for Linux on which win95 is said to, eh, crawl. [1] There may be many valid reasons to use this language, but generally *I*'d prefer perl or C.
This machine which has a continious Xwindow running and visual basic most of the time has not been re-booted in more than 2 months. AND that was to ad a new pccard.
Hmmm. Does that mean blood sacrifices or something? :-) But then none of the processes you mentioned racked up 26 hours of processor time, right? :-) (Anyway, your machine may be a freak occurance. And if you program an endless loop, adding a bit to memory usage every now and then ... ) -Wolfgang -- PGP 2 welcome: Mail me, subject "send PGP-key". If you've nothing at all to hide, you must be boring. Unsolicited Bulk E-Mails: *You* pay for ads you never wanted. Is our economy _that_ weak we have to tolerate SPAMMERS? I guess not. -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
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