<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">> On F15 updated, a 16gig system was stopped by knotify4 taking an<br>
> enormous amount of memory:<br>><br>> Mem: 16468528k total, 16312476k used, 156052k free, 8976k buffers<br>> Swap: 38817044k total, 14522228k used, 24294816k free, 70740k cached<br>><br>> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND<br>
><br>> 16658 root 20 0 30.1g 13g 4184 D 7.3 84.6 218:10.48 knotify4<br>><br>> googling shows knotify4 is a kde daemon that manages/checks for sound.<br>> Is there some config in fedora that controls knotify4?<br>
><br>> knotify4 was in F14, where I didn't see any problem. Is this a fedora<br>> issue or kde?<br>><br>if you kill the service and start it again, does it again start to use the<br>80% of memory?<br><br>><br>
> And is it really only used by kde? I ask because logging out doesn't<br>> kill the daemon; you must restart.<br>><br>> sean<br>></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Similar issue here, it seems looking at top that it was eating about 29% of my cpu</span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">all i was doing was installing wine</span></div>