Re: load 1 at idle, 2.4.12-ac3

martin sepulveda (msepulveda@joydivision.com.ar)
Tue, 16 Oct 2001 14:29:59 -0300


what it was? a paused xmms plugin in development (xmms was stoped)

talk about shame :)

M.

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:16:07 -0700
Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:00:41PM -0300, martin sepulveda wrote:
> > forget it!
> > i've found what it was, and it is certainly *not* the kernel :)
> >
> > thanks anyway, and sorry
> >
>
> What was it? A process stuck in D state? Something like dist.net or seti?
>
> Reminds me of recently when my X server (a couple days ago from
> debian-unstable) cought a memory leak, and my system was swapping like
> crazy. I thought it was something to do with the shmem problem I found a
> while back, but I looked at /proc/meminfo and no errors with shmem. Finally
> I checked top...
>
> Unfortunately, the OOM killer killed a few things, all except for my X
> server that was causing the problem.
>
> Mike

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