[OpenIndiana-discuss] MATE 1.20 and updated GTK+3 for hipster

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 18/10/2018 14:15, Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst wrote:
> On 10/16/18 15:11, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
>> On 16/10/2018 15:02, Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst wrote:
>>> On 10/16/18 09:14, Michal Nowak wrote:
>>>> On 10/15/18 09:04 AM, Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst wrote:
>>>>> On 10/14/18 17:12, Michal Nowak wrote:
>>>>>> ...
>>> Hi Michal,
>>>
>>> Thanks for advice, but unfortunately it did not help:
>>> did 'caja --quit' sevrerl times, even with 'rm -rf ~/.config/caja' in between...
>>> No help.
>>>
>>> It does not look that caja is main cause or/and Xorg, but everything... I knom
>>> top is not proper tool, but its name contains only 3 letters, so I could follow
>>> my typing (prstat is much longer :-)):
>>> ---<snip>---
>>> last pid:  2403;  load avg:  5.83,  5.38,  3.14;  up 0+00:13:48 14:41:39
>>> 116 processes: 104 sleeping, 9 running, 3 on cpu
>>> CPU states: 44.3% idle, 36.0% user, 19.7% kernel,  0.0% iowait,  0.0% swap
>>> Kernel: 1579 ctxsw, 82330 trap, 921 intr, 226416 syscall, 81898 flt
>>> Memory: 8127M phys mem, 3187M free mem, 8192M total swap, 8192M free swap
>>> ARC:    1875M Total, 1294M MRU, 152M MFU, 53M Anon, 29M Header, 346M Other
>>>
>>>    PID USERNAME NLWP PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    TIME    CPU COMMAND
>>>   2186 predrag_    5  52    0  219M  117M run      1:28  7.23%
>>> /usr/lib/amd64/mate-settings-daemon/mate-settings-daemon
>>>   2227 predrag_    4  59    0   85M   65M sleep    0:53  4.62%
>>> /usr/lib/nwam-manager
>>>   2222 predrag_    3  59    0   96M   75M sleep    0:53  4.61%
>>> /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/lib/time-slider-notify
>>>   2386 predrag_    4  59    0  136M   99M sleep    0:14  3.82% caja
>>>   2225 predrag_    4  59    0  126M   85M sleep    0:45  3.82%
>>> /usr/lib/amd64/mate/clock-applet
>>>   2218 predrag_    4  59    0  119M   83M sleep    0:44  3.80%
>>> /usr/lib/amd64/mate/stickynotes-applet
>>>   2221 predrag_    4  59    0  116M   79M sleep    0:45  3.78%
>>> /usr/lib/amd64/mate/mate-geyes-applet
>>>   2136 predrag_    4  52    0  115M   76M run      0:44  2.88% mate-session
>>>   2201 predrag_    3  59    0  114M   76M cpu/1    0:43  2.77%
>>> /usr/lib/amd64/mate-settings-daemon/msd-locate-pointer
>>>   2209 predrag_    3  52    0  116M   79M run      0:44  2.69%
>>> /usr/lib/amd64/mate/trashapplet
>>> ...
>>
>>
>> There are way too much syscalls for a presumably idle system,
>> about 10 times of the expected number.
>> May a truss -f -p <pid>  on the high CPU processes could give
>> clue what they are actually looking for.
>>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have give it a try again. Created truss from 2 top processes:
> * 2483 /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/lib/time-sliderd
> * 2494 /usr/lib/amd64/mate-settings-daemon/mate-settings-daemon
>
> $ ls -al  2delete/*truss*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 predrag_zecevic admin 23M Oct 18 13:53 2delete/LOAD.2483.truss
> -rw-r--r-- 1 predrag_zecevic admin 12M Oct 18 13:54 2delete/LOAD.2484.truss
>
> Most of entries there are like:
>
> 2484/1:
> stat64("/etc/X11/fontpath.d/100dpi-ISO8859-10:pri=91/courR12-ISO8859-10.pcf",
> 0x080468B0) = 0
> 2484/1:
> ...

This is strange, why in the world should the settings-daemon
read the fontpathes in an infinite loop ? Looks like its constantly
thinking the mate font configuration has changed.

> If someone is interested in truss files, let contact me.

Please put them on some dropbox or similar place.
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