System/KDE slowing over time :(
Hello,
First lemme thank all u guys for all the help u've provided me over time thru
this list.
I'm using a P4 2.2 with 512MB RAM and 256 MB Swap space. OS is Debian 3.0 with
KDE 3.0.4
I've got great uptime with my system lasting for weeks (a month usually) on
end and mostly it's been me who's rebooted to go to Windows or something like
that. The system has crashed though not too frequently.
My system has now been up for about one week without a reboot and today I
noticed that the system has been very slow i.e. Screen refresh has been very
very slow. New programs coming up became slow. At that time the programs
running on the comp were - 5 instances of Konqueror, 1 instance of Open
Office, 1 instance of KGhostScript, K3B, Wine running Kazaa, Kmerlin,Kmail
and Konsole.
The SysGuard showed Artsd with the User% of typically 35% or so. I was playing
music through K3B which I usually do. How's this so high?? Wat exactly is the
User space i.e. the User% being referred to? I've heard a lot of ppl
complaining about artsd being very tough on the.
Shutting down every software other than KDE and then restarting just Kmail and
Kmerlin, improved things a lil but not to the efficiency it was formerly, not
even after leaving it on for quite a few hours that way (hoping that maybe
any memory leaks would be cleared off by the kernel over time once the buggy
process was shut down)
It could be a memory leak problem with any one of the applications. Wine is
still under development so maybe that's wat caused it. Funny thing is
everything was working fine 12 hours earlier when I switched on the 5'th
instance of Konqueror to load www.uml.org.....any similar issues known to be
caused with konqueror
Restarting KDE got everything working just fine.
Even if it is a memory related problem caused by a buggy application shouldn't
the kernel be able to reclaim the memory once the buggy application is shut
down....or was it that KDE itself caused the memory leak and therefore when
KDE was restarted all went fine.......has anyone else noticed a similar
slowing down of KDE over time??
Thanks for all your help in advance.
Bye
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