Geee the computer refused to crash last night. Nothing I could do.
Does anyone know how I could "stress" artsd so I can see if that is really the source of the problem?
Someone tell me if I'm wrong here, but if I remember right (haven't used KDE much in a while) you can change the output level of artsd. Something like:
killall artsd
artsd -l 0 (where 0 is the level of output)
I think 0 is the level of the most output (debug mode). That may help you get some information.
As for "stressing" it, open two or three multimedia applications and set arts as the audio output source, then play something through them at the same time.
]]>Does anyone know how I could "stress" artsd so I can see if that is really the source of the problem?
]]>Mr Green, while I was "playing" and opening/closing konqueror, load from top was around 2 and when all was closed but konsole, it would stay high for quite long time. That is when I noticed artsd which I killed then things were going down slowly. Then I did something and that silly bell notification kept going so I had to turn off the computer.
]]>kde does take up a few cycles now & again
]]>For Xorg.conf, not sure exactly what I should be looking at.
In console, yes I get problems as the keybord gets slow or unresponding.
As far as disk space go, I don't think that would be the problem. Arch is installed on a 40G partition.
I will try your recommendations anyway...
As far as kernel go, I get the same problem whether I used 2.16 or 2.17 i.e. doing pacman -Syu, change initrd26 to kernel26-fallback...
]]>You could indeed try with a different kernel (stock if you're running ck or the other way around).
Install dstat from AUR and keep it running till you get to the zero hour. Maybe it'd reveal something fishy (excessive paging, constant disk access?). You can also run "dstat | tee logfile" to make it output to a file, in case you weren't able to see the output right away due to the circumstances.
]]>ps aux see what running [keep an eye maybe in top]
do you get same problems in console ?
Are you running stock kernel
Could be a number of things
]]>Now running top, X takes 99.9% of CPU !! Now coming down to 18%. Now everything is damn slow. Trying to open konqueror, it keeps crashing. Load from uptime is about 1.6. Now everyting is pretty much frozen, except I can switch tabs in konsole. Even the keyboard is not answering.
I would definitely like to solve this.
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