Re: Odd behavior

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 07:29:36PM -0400, jacob berkman wrote:
> > >   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
> 
> when did this go in?

I believe spring 1998, I seem to recall a discussion about this because the
panel needed it (this was during the time when the panel was broken for days,
so having it go into an infinite restart loop was just bad), could be later,
dunno, but it's nothing recent.  See gsm/manager.c around line 1382

George

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