Re: FVWM: Gigantic processor usage?

From: George \ <nephrite_at_inbox.ru>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 11:31:15 +0400

On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 09:40:56PM +0200, Berry Bakker wrote:
> when I have my own made theme running with premade icons downloaded from
> www.kde-look.org it doesn't take much processor usage, ~3% according to
> gkrellm. But then I added the future off the thumbnail icons, and it seems
> that since than the processor is constandly using ~90%, even when there are
> no icons. What can the problem be?

Looks like some commands stay running after making a mini icon, but are
detached from X-server forcibly i.e. by closing connection on fvwm side.
This happens to, for example, xmms and some other apps if you kill them with
xkill. Thus they may be doing polls and such that loads your CPU. Launch a
'ps wax' command and grep for leftover commands like 'convert' or whatever
you launch to make miniicons. If they really stay you should debug fvwm
function making miniicons to not to leave them running.

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George 'Nephrite' Potapov
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Received on Mon May 24 2004 - 02:34:19 BST

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