Re: Why should starting synaptec peg system resources?
Ashton Fagg <ashton@fagg.id.au> writes:
> On 21 January 2012 10:55, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
>> However, if I start synaptic it immediately pegs resources (as viewed
>> in `top') around 92-95 percent us.. And there it stays until I close the
>> partially open synaptic gui.
>>
>> At that point the `top' reading drops to 92-95 percent id.
>>
>> Surely this is quite abnormal... where would I look to start
>> debugging?
>
> Has this worked previously? Is it a new problem?
I've only started the gui once or twice before and its been a while
but I think it did work as expected.
I normally do things with aptitude as mentioned in OP.
> Have you tried reinstalling the Synaptic?
No, should that be necessary?
> I remember hearing about this previously with an old release Ubuntu a
> few years ago. I just had a look and managed to find it. Somebody
> suggests deleting /var/run/synaptic.socket. Your mileage may vary, but
> here's the bug report - it doesn't sound like it's entirely the same
> issue, though.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/218213
And its several years old. Plus, the fix mentioned there does not
apply here since there is no file named /var/run/synaptic*.socket present to
delete.
Thanks for the effort though.
For further input, I did reboot for other reasons and kind of thought
that might change things with synaptic too, but it didn't. Well, it
does show a bit less resource usage but still over 80%.
Oddly, the update manager starts and runs with no problems, and I think
that also uses synaptic doesn't it?
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