[SLE] Re: Gnome and SuSE 10 too unreliable to use?
Funny you should mention this today. I ended up switching to KDE because of this, and today (for the first time in ages) I used a gnome application (bittorrent) from within KDE, within 5 minutes one of the cores on my CPU was maxed out at 100% usage! When I originally logged this on bugzilla I was completely underwhelmed by the response. I think the problem lies with which file modification manager gnome uses: "fam" or "gam". Not certain, but I think the way they (eventually) suggested fixing it was to delete gam and install fam. I guess this should be fixed in SuSE 10.1, but I haven't been "brave" enough to try it yet...... Cheers, Jon Collinson, Adrian wrote:
Jonathan,
Sorry for the unsolicited email but after seeing you posting re "Gnome and SuSE 10 too unreliable" on the Internet I wondered if you managed to find a resolution to your problem?Experiencing exactly the same here.
regards
Adrian
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On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 22:16 +0100, Jonathan Brooks wrote:
Funny you should mention this today. I ended up switching to KDE because of this, and today (for the first time in ages) I used a gnome application (bittorrent) from within KDE, within 5 minutes one of the cores on my CPU was maxed out at 100% usage!
When I originally logged this on bugzilla I was completely underwhelmed by the response. I think the problem lies with which file modification manager gnome uses: "fam" or "gam". Not certain, but I think the way they (eventually) suggested fixing it was to delete gam and install fam. I guess this should be fixed in SuSE 10.1, but I haven't been "brave" enough to try it yet......
Evolution can have the same problem (even when run in KDE, as I do). There can be a couple dozen fam processes running. OK if they are just sleeping. But they were all busy. I eventually had to kill them. It seems to be related to when I use a local mail folder. This is in 10.0. I don't have a 10.1 system with a mail setup of the type that seems to lead to this. So I have not tested it there. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems AB Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Fax: Int +46 8-31 42 23 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
Seems like dropping KDE in favour of a Gnome only world would be a complete disaster....? Or is this fixed in 10.1 ;-) and we're being "persuaded" to upgrade? Cheers, Jon. Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 22:16 +0100, Jonathan Brooks wrote:
Funny you should mention this today. I ended up switching to KDE because of this, and today (for the first time in ages) I used a gnome application (bittorrent) from within KDE, within 5 minutes one of the cores on my CPU was maxed out at 100% usage!
When I originally logged this on bugzilla I was completely underwhelmed by the response. I think the problem lies with which file modification manager gnome uses: "fam" or "gam". Not certain, but I think the way they (eventually) suggested fixing it was to delete gam and install fam. I guess this should be fixed in SuSE 10.1, but I haven't been "brave" enough to try it yet......
Evolution can have the same problem (even when run in KDE, as I do). There can be a couple dozen fam processes running. OK if they are just sleeping. But they were all busy. I eventually had to kill them. It seems to be related to when I use a local mail folder. This is in 10.0. I don't have a 10.1 system with a mail setup of the type that seems to lead to this. So I have not tested it there.
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On 6/26/06, Jonathan Brooks <jonathan.brooks@human-anatomy.oxford.ac.uk> wrote:
Funny you should mention this today. I ended up switching to KDE because of this, and today (for the first time in ages) I used a gnome application (bittorrent) from within KDE, within 5 minutes one of the cores on my CPU was maxed out at 100% usage!
When I originally logged this on bugzilla I was completely underwhelmed by the response. I think the problem lies with which file modification manager gnome uses: "fam" or "gam". Not certain, but I think the way they (eventually) suggested fixing it was to delete gam and install fam. I guess this should be fixed in SuSE 10.1, but I haven't been "brave" enough to try it yet......
Hmm... Interesting. I am running GNOME with SuSE 10.0 and 10.1 on several machines and I have had no performance issues. The hardware range from a PIV 1.8 GHz to an AMD x86_64 2.4 GHz. No runaway processes, CPUs idling away. I wonder what the difference in installations can be. -- Andre Truter | Software Consultant | Registered Linux user #185282 Jabber: andre_tux@jabberafrica.org | http://www.trusoft.co.za ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~ -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
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