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Originally Posted by freebird
You can find what is using the hdd and memory by issueing "top" command
Code:
~$top
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~$htop (if available)
Note the top most app that is using the memory.I think this may be some cron job that is doing "updatedb" or like command.just find it out. |
Thanks for replying. I knew about this command before, but the problem is that when this happens, I won't be able to give the command. But after seeing your reply, I just gave the command when the system was running smoothly and saw that a task named 'klash' was using 88-99.8% CPU. So, I thought it has something to do with KDE plugins since this klash is related to flash. So, I launched Konqueror and choose Configure->Plugins. The only plugin listed was Flash 9. When I clicked OK, the problem again happened. I waited for about 10 minutes and then rebooted.
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Originally Posted by tech_your_future
What's the amount of RAM on your system? I personally found Mandriva bloated and way too slow on 256MB of RAM. But, still KDE crashing is not done.
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I have only 256 MB (actually 248 MB, 8 MB shared). But, I have been using Mandriva for the past 3-4 months, and was running fine for me. This problem started happening only yesterday. The programs that where present while the problem occured are:
Firefox - 4/6 times
Akregator - 3/6 times
Opera - 3/6 times
KTorrent - 1/6 times
Thunderbird - 1/6 times
I am mentioning these in the hope that it would give you guys some clue.
Another thing I noticed while typing this reply is that when I did 'ps -e' , I saw 4 instances of 'acroread' and 10-12 instances of 'kio_file' and 8 instances of 'kio_http'. The total number of tasks at that time was 115. I didn't open Acrobat Reader. So, I don't know how it started. According to 'top', now it is 85, about 3 MB RAM is free & swap usage is 320 MB.
What's the command to determine parent of a process?