Re: [SLUG] Occasional near freezes

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sun May 30 2004 - 23:56:40 EDT


On Sun, 30 May 2004, Bob Stia wrote:

> Maybe once every couple of weeks, while doing my normal routine things,
> (using kmail or konq ) the computer starts to really slow down and
> become unresponsive.   I then check in TOP and I find some process that
> is really hogging cpu time.  Tonight it was artsd using about 80%. (Did
> play a couple of games of kpoker with associated sound effects) Don't
> remember what it was the last time. I just shut down and restarted X to
> get it normal again.

artsd is flaky, maybe? See if there's an update, or disable it and deal
with one sound at a time, unless your sound card handles multiple
simultaneous sounds (mine does, a SoundBlaster Live!).

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      He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool;
        and he who dares not is a slave.  -Sir William Drummond

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