[opensuse] orca ate my CPU and typing speed
Since updating the kernel earlier this week, my keyboard has been really slow. I mean I could type faster than the characters would appear onscreen. This happened everywhere, in web pages, in emacs, even at a shell prompt in a terminal window. So finally today I checked some things and found (using "top") that "orca" was using 100% of a CPU (this laptop has 8 CPUs). "orca" was first a child process of "gkrellm" the first time I looked in "ps"; but when I looked (again in "ps") just a couple minutes later, "orca" was a child process of some "de-dup" process. That wasn't the entire name of the "de-dup" process, but only what of it I can remember. So I killed the "orca" process. I haven't noticed anything changing in the functioning of my system... except that my keyboard is now back up to speed; the characters appear onscreen as I type them, as they should. So I can say, "it's fixed." But I was wondering if anyone else has seen this problem. And what the heck is "orca" for...? why do I even need it? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Quoting ken <gebser@mousecar.com>: [snip]
So I can say, "it's fixed." But I was wondering if anyone else has seen this problem. And what the heck is "orca" for...? why do I even need it?
Orca is a screen reader. I suppose it attaches or is re-spawned as a child of whatever it's reading. It's a Gnome project. HTH, Jeffrey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
* Jeffrey L. Taylor <jeff.taylor@ieee.org> [10-24-18 20:02]:
Quoting ken <gebser@mousecar.com>: [snip]
So I can say, "it's fixed." But I was wondering if anyone else has seen this problem. And what the heck is "orca" for...? why do I even need it?
Orca is a screen reader. I suppose it attaches or is re-spawned as a child of whatever it's reading. It's a Gnome project.
and (I am guessing) probably not installed w/o deliberation on your part either specifically or by another app you choose (recommends). -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 25/10/2018 02.46, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Jeffrey L. Taylor <> [10-24-18 20:02]:
Quoting ken <>: [snip]
So I can say, "it's fixed." But I was wondering if anyone else has seen this problem. And what the heck is "orca" for...? why do I even need it?
Orca is a screen reader. I suppose it attaches or is re-spawned as a child of whatever it's reading. It's a Gnome project.
and (I am guessing) probably not installed w/o deliberation on your part either specifically or by another app you choose (recommends).
No, I have it installed and never used it. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)
* Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> [10-25-18 04:57]:
On 25/10/2018 02.46, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Jeffrey L. Taylor <> [10-24-18 20:02]:
Quoting ken <>: [snip]
So I can say, "it's fixed." But I was wondering if anyone else has seen this problem. And what the heck is "orca" for...? why do I even need it?
Orca is a screen reader. I suppose it attaches or is re-spawned as a child of whatever it's reading. It's a Gnome project.
and (I am guessing) probably not installed w/o deliberation on your part either specifically or by another app you choose (recommends).
No, I have it installed and never used it.
I do not on plasma5/kde, so must be pulled in by your chosen DE. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
* Patrick Shanahan <paka@opensuse.org> [10-25-18 08:52]:
* Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> [10-25-18 04:57]:
On 25/10/2018 02.46, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Jeffrey L. Taylor <> [10-24-18 20:02]:
Quoting ken <>: [snip]
So I can say, "it's fixed." But I was wondering if anyone else has seen this problem. And what the heck is "orca" for...? why do I even need it?
Orca is a screen reader. I suppose it attaches or is re-spawned as a child of whatever it's reading. It's a Gnome project.
and (I am guessing) probably not installed w/o deliberation on your part either specifically or by another app you choose (recommends).
No, I have it installed and never used it.
I do not on plasma5/kde, so must be pulled in by your chosen DE.
08:53 crash:~ > zypper se -s --recommends orka Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository --+-------------------------------+---------+---------------+--------+--------------------------------------------- | libqt5-qtnetworkauth-examples | package | 5.11.2-1.1 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed OSS | libqt5-qtnetworkauth-examples | package | 5.11.2-1.1 | i586 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed OSS | patterns-kde-devel_qt5 | package | 20180709-78.1 | noarch | KDE:Applications (openSUSE_Factory_standard) | patterns-kde-devel_qt5 | package | 20180709-5.1 | noarch | openSUSE-Tumbleweed OSS 08:54 crash:~ > zypper se -s --requires orka Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository --+--------------------------------------------+---------+------------------------+--------+------------------------ | libqt5-qtnetworkauth-devel | package | 5.11.2-1.1 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed OSS | libqt5-qtnetworkauth-devel | package | 5.11.2-1.1 | i586 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed OSS | libqt5-qtnetworkauth-devel-32bit | package | 5.11.2-1.1 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed OSS | libqt5-qtnetworkauth-examples | package | 5.11.2-1.1 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed OSS | libqt5-qtnetworkauth-examples | package | 5.11.2-1.1 | i586 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed OSS | libqt5-qtnetworkauth-private-headers-devel | package | 5.11.2-1.1 | noarch | openSUSE-Tumbleweed OSS | texlive-proposal | package | 2018.158.svn40538-38.1 | noarch | openSUSE-Tumbleweed OSS and that will undoubtedly wrap when you view so you and the OP are pulling in development pkgs -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 25/10/2018 15:00, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
08:53 crash:~ > zypper se -s --recommends orka
Orca with a C, as in killer whale, not orka with a K, which has no meaning that I know of in English. -- Liam Proven - Technical Writer, SUSE Linux s.r.o. Corso II, Křižíkova 148/34, 186-00 Praha 8 - Karlín, Czechia Email: lproven@suse.com - Office telephone: +420 284 241 084 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
* Liam Proven <lproven@suse.cz> [10-25-18 09:20]:
On 25/10/2018 15:00, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
08:53 crash:~ > zypper se -s --recommends orka
Orca with a C, as in killer whale, not orka with a K, which has no meaning that I know of in English.
arrrrggggghhh, you rite: 09:29 crash:~ > zypper se -s --requires orca Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository --+---------------+---------+--------------------------------+--------+------------------------ | gap-full | package | 4.8.10-1.2 | noarch | openSUSE-Tumbleweed OSS | libulfius2_3 | package | 2.3.8-2.1 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed OSS | libulfius2_3 | package | 2.3.8-2.1 | i586 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed OSS | libyder1_3 | package | 1.3.4-2.1 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed OSS | libyder1_3 | package | 1.3.4-2.1 | i586 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed OSS | orca-lang | package | 3.30.0-1.1 | noarch | openSUSE-Tumbleweed OSS | orcania-devel | package | 1.2.4-2.1 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed OSS | orcania-devel | package | 1.2.4-2.1 | i586 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed OSS | sbl-orca | package | 3.5.0.20130317.git7a75bc29-3.2 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed OSS | sbl-orca | package | 3.5.0.20130317.git7a75bc29-3.2 | i586 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed OSS | ulfius-devel | package | 2.3.8-2.1 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed OSS | ulfius-devel | package | 2.3.8-2.1 | i586 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed OSS | yder-devel | package | 1.3.4-2.1 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed OSS | yder-devel | package | 1.3.4-2.1 | i586 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed OSS -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 25/10/2018 15:31, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
arrrrggggghhh, you rite:
:-D It's a GNOME thing and AFAIK only works in GNOME, Maté and maybe Cinnamon. -- Liam Proven - Technical Writer, SUSE Linux s.r.o. Corso II, Křižíkova 148/34, 186-00 Praha 8 - Karlín, Czechia Email: lproven@suse.com - Office telephone: +420 284 241 084 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
* ken <gebser@mousecar.com> [10-24-18 19:16]:
Since updating the kernel earlier this week, my keyboard has been really slow. I mean I could type faster than the characters would appear onscreen. This happened everywhere, in web pages, in emacs, even at a shell prompt in a terminal window. So finally today I checked some things and found (using "top") that "orca" was using 100% of a CPU (this laptop has 8 CPUs). "orca" was first a child process of "gkrellm" the first time I looked in "ps"; but when I looked (again in "ps") just a couple minutes later, "orca" was a child process of some "de-dup" process. That wasn't the entire name of the "de-dup" process, but only what of it I can remember.
So I killed the "orca" process. I haven't noticed anything changing in the functioning of my system... except that my keyboard is now back up to speed; the characters appear onscreen as I type them, as they should.
So I can say, "it's fixed." But I was wondering if anyone else has seen this problem. And what the heck is "orca" for...? why do I even need it?
zypper info orca -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 25/10/2018 01:12, ken wrote:
And what the heck is "orca" for...? why do I even need it?
It's the GNOME accessibility tool. It's for blind users and reads what's on the screen to them. If it's trying to read descriptions of everything, that would slow down your computer a little bit -- a close friend of mine is blind and he is one of the most computer-performance-demanding people I know. -- Liam Proven - Technical Writer, SUSE Linux s.r.o. Corso II, Křižíkova 148/34, 186-00 Praha 8 - Karlín, Czechia Email: lproven@suse.com - Office telephone: +420 284 241 084 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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