full CPU usage

Casper · Post by **Casper** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 8:07 pm

After running the client for a long time, especially if doing some scripting, I find that the client can become slow to respond and start eating all CPU time it can have. This happens under both Linux and WinXP. I'm running client version 1.7.

Restarting the client solves the problem, but eventually it comes back again.

I know the description is far too vague to help anyone fix the problem, but still wondering if anyone else suffered from it?

Casper

Zephyrus · Post by **Zephyrus** » Fri Aug 13, 2004 3:33 am

There is no limit to how much text the window stores. It will build up eventually with alchemy. Restarts fix this, but clearing still seems to leave it.

woo · Post by **woo** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:45 pm

did this fix your problem casper?
If so, setting some sort of a max history length could be looked at.

Casper · Post by **Casper** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:57 pm

The problem is gone. I am now running on a different OS using a different compile of the client, but it's been known to stay up for a week without crashing or exhibiting any memory or CPU hungry features.

Thanks!

woo · Post by **woo** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 10:06 pm

cool, what OS/client are you on now?

Casper · Post by **Casper** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 10:11 pm

OS: Linux Slackware Current
Client: CVS from (checks date) a week ago.

Have not closed the client since then, and it still runs well. Seems far more stable than the server and ISP anyhow!

woo · Post by **woo** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 10:50 pm

Welcome to the dark side (linux).

Soon you will become a dark Jedi Master (gentoo) and eventually a teacher. (LFS)

Casper · Post by **Casper** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:05 am

I used to have Debian before... and Red Hat a long time ago. It's just I could not figure out how to play radio over the Internet in Linux, and MSN Messenger was better than Gaim. None of those hold true any more. I still have Windows installed, but it is just that, installed. I rebooted when I gave up trying to compile the GTK client under Cygwin.

This is getting a little Off Topic, but if I switch away from Slackware it will probably be Debian again. Apt is a really cool package manager. I used to run it some time before apt annoyed me with dependancy checking. I think some day I will want dependancy checking back.

Gentoo is nice if you have the days of spare CPU time to compile it, and.. well... LFS is too hardcore for me. Maybe someday when I have a spare week, fast Internet and a computer with nothing installed on it, >32MB RAM, >4GB HDD, and >200MHz CPU

Hey, I can get hold of one of those quite easily

(Casper goes to ebay)

cavesomething · Post by **cavesomething** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:55 am

You want much more RAM than that, I once tried installing gentoo on a P133 with 32MB of ram, took 3 days to get to the point where I had updated gcc and compiled bash & links, (and this from stage 3). LFS would probably be slower than that, since you don't get the stage tarballs to start you off (ignoring portage overhead). Personally I won't run gentoo at least until I have a system which is even vaguely fast by todays standards (ie not 750 Mhz and not with 100Mhz RAM either)

woo · Post by **woo** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 4:20 am

My desktop (that has Gentoo) is a 3.0 P4 with HT, 1GB RAM...
Odd, it seems to compile gentoo just fine?

Gentoo is overkill unless you want to play around wiht things, I set my system to emerge everything I wanted and took a week trip to San Salvador on the company. That's about the only time you can afford to compile your system from the ground up, and set a pretty high optomization flag for gcc

I spend most of my time in Redhat (company laptop) so I'm probably most familiar with that.
I think it's worth saying that for anyone who does run gentoo the ebuild of the GTK client is not stable and you need to grab a tarball yourself.