On Sunday 30 May 2004 11:56 pm, Eben King wrote:
> On Sun, 30 May 2004, Bob Stia wrote:
> > Maybe once every couple of weeks, while doing my normal routine
> > things, (using kmail or konq ) the computer starts to really slow
> > down and become unresponsive. I then check in TOP and I find some
> > process that is really hogging cpu time. Tonight it was artsd
> > using about 80%. (Did play a couple of games of kpoker with
> > associated sound effects) Don't remember what it was the last
> > time. I just shut down and restarted X to get it normal again.
>
> artsd is flaky, maybe? See if there's an update, or disable it and
> deal with one sound at a time, unless your sound card handles
> multiple simultaneous sounds (mine does, a SoundBlaster Live!).
Thanks for replying, all of you. No, my artsd is the latest and this
has happened for awhile. Doesn't mean that artsd isn't flaky though.
Guess I will just wait and investigate more thoroughly each time it
happens. I also have a soundblaster live.
Let you know what I find. May be awhile though ! :-)
Bob S.
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