gnome-settings-daemon making lots of calls to ioctl

[Karl Rossing <karlr barobinson com>]

Hi,

I hope I'm posting to the proper forum. Please let me know where I 
should post if this is incorrect.

We have a Dual Processor Quadcore X4150 with 64GB of ram and 100 sunray 
desktop units running on solaris express developer edition snv_111(Gnome 
2.24.2).

We have noticed that there are 56 gnome-settings-daemon running. Some of 
them will make about  1000000 calls to ioctl about every 10 seconds.

We used topsyscall and topsysproc from the DTrace Toolkit to figure that 
out. Load averages oscillate between 14 and 30. Unfortunately the high 
end of the load average trends up as new users login.

Could someone shed some light on where else we should look to try to 
find the culprit?

Thanks
Karl









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