Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:43:04 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Paul Dokas <dokas@oitsec.umn.edu> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gam_server issue? Message-ID: <1246898584.10544.22.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <4A520341.8070504@oitsec.umn.edu> References: <4A520341.8070504@oitsec.umn.edu>
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--=-E2EyF7O6XIz+81wNbJQb Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 08:59 -0500, Paul Dokas wrote: > 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= ). It's normal if it's doing a lot of polling, or if monitored files and directories are changing a lot. You'd have to use ktrace or gdb to see what it's doing to know if this is a problem or not. Joe >=20 > Here are the top running processes according to top. I'm logged in of co= urse > and the machine is otherwise idle. >=20 > PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMA= ND > 4621 dokas 1 49 0 24068K 14908K select 0 4:39 8.50% gam_s= erver > 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% track= erd > 8355 dokas 1 44 0 118M 16340K select 0 0:34 0.00% multi= load-applet-2 > 4820 dokas 1 44 0 104M 18876K select 1 0:07 0.00% metac= ity > 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% nauti= lus >=20 >=20 > Paul --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-E2EyF7O6XIz+81wNbJQb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkpSKZcACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4exdQCgh0Z0vk934MwurP3bJkJYJy/Z eyYAn2eX4bLfyUGLtIy4VxhZKFzAchIu =cz60 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-E2EyF7O6XIz+81wNbJQb--
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