Re: Odd behavior

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 04:32:44PM -0400, Gregory McLean wrote:
> Maybe someone can clue me in here... I was ripping/encoding a cd and I
> happened to notice some sluggish performance on the desktop:
> 
> 
>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
>  1966 gregm     15   0  1512 1444   700 R    29.5  0.5   2:30 oggenc
>  1648 gregm     16   0 14000  11M  2512 R    29.5  4.4  10:12 nautilus
>  1954 gregm     15   0  1504 1404   572 R    29.3  0.5   3:13 oggenc
>  1531 root       9   0  187M 184M  3244 S     5.6 74.0   2:30 X
> 
> Someone care to clue me in to wtf nautilus is doing that can consume 29%
> of the CPU? oggenc I expect. Nautilus has no windows open yet I see it
> spinning:

This is not a die and respawn bug 1) gsm has a loop of death detection AFAIK
2) look at the TIME on the nautilus process

What seems to me is the problem is that Nautilus code to check/set the
desktop is being triggered continuously.  I'm looking into it.

The X connection stuff is because Nautilus has to make a new X connection if
I can remember correctly to do the background foo.

George

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