From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 6 14:14:08 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7045F10656BE for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 14:14:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dokas@oitsec.umn.edu) Received: from mail.oitsec.umn.edu (mail.oitsec.umn.edu [128.101.238.120]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4254E8FC0A for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 14:14:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dokas@oitsec.umn.edu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.oitsec.umn.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9A6E6D439 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 08:59:30 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at oitsec.umn.edu Received: from mail.oitsec.umn.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.oitsec.umn.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id BfDoTrsGL2iY for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 08:59:29 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cdward.oitsec.umn.edu (cdward.oitsec.umn.edu [160.94.247.237]) by mail.oitsec.umn.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 621CF6D43F for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 08:59:29 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4A520341.8070504@oitsec.umn.edu> Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:59:29 -0500 From: Paul Dokas Organization: OIT Security & Assurance, University of Minnesota User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090625) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gnome@FreeBSD.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: gam_server issue? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Paul Dokas List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:14:10 -0000 Is it normal for gam_server to constantly use approx 7% to 10% of a CPU? This seems to be a normal state while I'm logged in. This also happens while the computer is sitting at the GDM prompt (but gam_server is being run by gdm). Here are the top running processes according to top. I'm logged in of course and the machine is otherwise idle. PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 4621 dokas 1 49 0 24068K 14908K select 0 4:39 8.50% gam_server 93462 root 1 44 0 378M 100M select 1 4:18 0.00% Xorg 5313 dokas 3 44 19 124M 96608K ucond 1 2:51 0.00% trackerd 8355 dokas 1 44 0 118M 16340K select 0 0:34 0.00% multiload-applet-2 4820 dokas 1 44 0 104M 18876K select 1 0:07 0.00% metacity 6605 dokas 1 44 0 132M 21392K select 2 0:03 0.00% wnck-applet 4873 dokas 1 44 0 216M 33080K select 1 0:02 0.00% nautilus Paul -- Paul Dokas dokas at oitsec.umn.edu ====================================================================== Don Juan Matus: "an enigma wrapped in mystery wrapped in a tortilla."