Re: Severe periodical hang up on KDE 2.2
Am Freitag, 28. Dezember 2001 14:10 schrieb Jarno Elonen:
> Hi,
>
> My system with KDE 2.2 on Debian unstable is demonstrating some quite
> irritating behaviour:
>
> It works very well except that periodically, about after two hours of use
> or so, it suddenly starts crunching the disk as if swapping heavily.
>
> In about a minute or two every UI process is suffocated and for example the
> KDE clock, mouse pointer, text mode console and SSH daemon (even on nice
> level -19!) stop responding completely.
>
> This goes on about 5-10 minutes after which everything either comes back to
> normal or (sometimes) a few processes (like desktop, konqueror or kwin)
> have died of insufficient memory. I guess kernel runs out of swap space and
> then gives up.
>
> TOP doesn't show any process hogging memory once the hard disk starts to
> roll. Possibly a kernel incompatibility with some part of KDE?
>
>
> Any ideas on how to start debugging this?
>
Find out which process is doing it and attach gdb to it and get me a
backtrace. I don't know if debug symbols are enabled in your build.
This really sounds like the QClipboard bug. Do you run klipper? Could you try
running it without klipper
regards Holger
>
> Some version info:
>
> + Celeron 300 Mhz
> + 128 MB of memory
> + Linux 2.4.13 i686
> + KDE 2.2
> + libqt2 2.3.1-17
> + libqt2-mt 2.3.1-17 (no -gl)
> + XFree86 4.1.0.1
> + Diamon viper 550 (TNT 1 variant)
> + NVidia-GLX 1.0.1512-2
> + NVidia-kernel 2.4.13_1.0.1541-3_i386
>
> - Jarno
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