Re: New RHAD rpm's on Alpha

[Adam Powell <hazelsct mit edu>]

Conrad Steenberg wrote:

> Hi everybody
>
> Just a quick note of thanks for the new RHAD gnome rpm's, they work great
> so far. Also thanks to all gnome developers for all the stability
> improvements the last few months. Particulary impressive is the relatively
> low memory overhead relative to an equivalent KDE setup.
>
> On the alpha, I did notice that a few programs used up a lot of CPU time
> (33% each), namely gmc and gnome-name-service, with gnome-session taking
> about 6%. Does anyone know why this may be?  As I said, this is with the
> newest rpm's including gmc-4.5.30-3rh, gnome-core-1.0.4-13rh and
> gnome-libs-1.0.8-2rh dowloaded yesterday. The system is Redhat 5.1 with
> all the recommended upgrades to 5.2 versions. The kernel is 2.1.121.

I had exactly the same problem.  In fact, *every* GNOME app ran at a full
load point in its idle state!  This is because glib uses poll() in idle; late

2.1 Alpha kernels have broken poll().  (I don't know exactly how this worked,

but it was something like this.)  Upgrade to 2.2 and this should go away.

Zeen,

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