f15: knotify4 > 25gig mem

sean darcy seandarcy2 at gmail.com
Sat Apr 30 14:07:34 UTC 2011


On F15 updated, a 16gig system was stopped by knotify4 taking an 
enormous amount of memory:

Mem:  16468528k total, 16312476k used,   156052k free,     8976k buffers
Swap: 38817044k total, 14522228k used, 24294816k free,    70740k cached

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND 

16658 root      20   0 30.1g  13g 4184 D  7.3 84.6 218:10.48 knotify4

googling shows knotify4 is a kde daemon that manages/checks for sound. 
Is there some config in fedora that controls knotify4?

knotify4 was in F14, where I didn't see any problem. Is this a fedora 
issue or kde?

And is it really only used by kde? I ask because logging out doesn't 
kill the daemon; you must restart.

sean




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