From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 27 19:16:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFE9916A4CE for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:16:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from lakemtao08.cox.net (lakemtao08.cox.net [68.1.17.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 119C843D45 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:16:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kitsune@gmx.co.uk) Received: from vixen42 ([68.109.49.234]) by lakemtao08.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with SMTP id <20040128031602.NPAO2412.lakemtao08.cox.net@vixen42>; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:16:02 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 21:14:40 -0600 From: kitsune To: epilogue@allstream.net Message-Id: <20040127211440.09d279ca@vixen42.> In-Reply-To: <20040127014907.70e7dfda.epilogue@allstream.net> References: <20040127014907.70e7dfda.epilogue@allstream.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tuxcards + run away process X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 03:16:07 -0000 On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:49:07 -0500 epilogue@allstream.net wrote: > > Take II. :) > > ----------------- > Begin forwarded message: > > Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 20:29:12 -0500 > From: epilogue@allstream.net > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Tuxcards + run away process > > > Hello all, > > I have been having problems with the program Tuxcards > (ports/deskutils). After about 5 minutes open, it's process seems to > run away (whether or not I am actively using the program). > > I have built Tuxcards from ports and also tried installing the pkg, > but both yield the same result: > > last pid: 14101; load averages: 0.59, 0.21, 0.15 > > up 0+00:34:17 20:05:28 36 processes: 4 running, 32 sleeping > CPU states: 95.3% user, 0.0% nice, 0.8% system, 3.9% interrupt, > 0.0% idle Mem: 85M Active, 91M Inact, 40M Wired, 3048K Cache, 48M > Buf, 154M Free Swap: 800M Total, 800M Free > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU > COMMAND 14014 epi 49 0 24716K 20680K RUN 0:58 90.19% > 90.19% tuxcards 172 epi 28 0 41648K 40152K RUN > 0:59 0.05% 0.05% XFree86 186 epi 2 0 41252K > 33388K poll 0:17 0.00% 0.00% opera... > > I would like to trace the problem, but am unsure where to start. If > anyone could point me in the right direction, it would be very much > appreciated. Check out ktrace. I've used a bit when trouble shooting stuff and it can be handy at times.