[gNewSense-users] possible gNewSense kernel/memory issue?
From:
andrei raevsky
Subject:
[gNewSense-users] possible gNewSense kernel/memory issue?
Date:
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:07:42 -0400
Dear friends,
While I am moderately competent is the use of GNU/Linux I am very much a Linux kernel ignoramous, so please bear with me through my maybe illiterate question.
I have noticed that gNewSense has a somewhat less than stellar uptime. On my computer (which runs: Linux gNewSenseBox2
2.6.15-28-386 #1 PREEMPT Thu May 24 19:18:47 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux) I need to reboot about once every 5 days due to the gradual instability of the applications I mostly run (Epiphany, OpenOffice, Nautilus, Xterm, GNOME). I noticed that when a look at the process list there are many sleeping instances of applications which I had quitted which are still running. For example, after a while Epiphany crashes and cannot be restarted until I reboot. The last time I re-booted I got a message during the loading of the GNOME desktop's windows manager (MetaCity I think) which said "failed to initialize HAL" (or something very similar). Assuming that this was the hardware abstraction layer deamon I tried both lauching "hald" and "hald --deamon=yes" form the console but did not see it in 'top'. I took a look at the "messages" log and here is what I found:
The last line seems to indicate that hald exited with an error.
Should I ignore all this insofar as the computer seems to be running ok, or is there something I need to do about all this. Why is gNewSense's uptime so much less than Debian's? Could it be that the removal of the proprietary code in the kernel are causing these problems? Should I worry about hald? Why is it that I have, after a couple of days, plenty of sleeping processes?