Re: leafnode & kupdated
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 10:09:26PM -0700, ben wrote:
> On Thursday 25 April 2002 09:21 pm, sda wrote:
> > Greetings:
> >
> > I've just installed Woody and am in the process of setting it up. I have
> > two issues/problems that I hope this list can help me with.
> >
> > 1/ My system hangs periodically, everything freezes. Running, top the
> > culprit seems to be kupdated. What package do I need to remove, to be rid
> > of this beast? I assume it's part of KDE [which I don't use anyway] just
> > need the libs. Has anyone else seen this behaviour?
> >
> > 2/ I installed leafnode. I'm used to running and setting it up on other
> > boxes and I don't like `dpkg configure' setting it up for me - it's not
> > doing it the way I wish. How do I prevent this tool from configuring it
> > for me? It does't seem to give one the option to say no...
> >
>
> to the first question, kupdated isn't related to kde, at all. it's a kernel
> update daemon which i believe is related to the kernel's monitoring of memory
> swapping. all i can tell you about with any conviction is that you need it
> and you don't have a hell of a lot of options on that issue. the more likely
> culprit is whatever app is initiating the high rate of repetition of kupdated
> being called on to do its job. other issues are how much swap space did you
> set up? and how much ram are you working with? swap space is generally best
> optimized at a minimum of twice your ram, or more, if you can coax the cpu
> into playing the game you want. getting back to the original issue--the
> kernel--which iteration of that are you running? consider an upgrade.
I have 384016K of ram and a swap partition of 128516K with 127792K free.
So that shouldn't be the problem. It seems to have quieted down a bit so
maybe it was a script running in post-install?
> as for the second--sorry, ain't got no clue, although commonsense suggests to
> me that you should be able to edit whatever configuration dpkg or anything
> else generates for you.
Yes that's what I thought to.
> i hope this relieves some of the frustration.
Thanks - it helps when there's people listening. <g>
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