f15: knotify4 > 25gig mem

Maximi89 maximi89 at gmail.com
Sat Apr 30 21:25:05 UTC 2011


2011/4/30 sean darcy <seandarcy2 at gmail.com>

> 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?
>
if you kill the service and start it again, does it again start to use the
80% of memory?

>
> 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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