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I am not in front of a KDE machine right now, but you can disable the
arts daemon in the kde control center. Even when nothing is generating
sound, arts is a daemon that is alway running.
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Hi

>
> I run some media players and now I do "nothing", only Icedove and
> Firefox is opened and top is running by Yakuake. KDE sound is disabled.
> "Normally" my media players are using ALSA and seldom Jack, there might
> be a KDE player, that might use arts and maybe I run it accidentally
> while clicking on some sound files, but at the moment there is no media
> player running.
>
> Why is artsd wasting resources? Why is IRQ-21, the sound card, "runner-up"?
>
> KDE sound is disabled, only computer case speaker beep is enabled.
>
> spinymouse@64studio:~$ top
> top - 01:59:13 up 3:51, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.11, 0.09
> Tasks: 145 total, 2 running, 143 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 3.3%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 96.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi,
> 0.0%si, 0.0%st
> Mem: 1911196k total, 773028k used, 1138168k free, 58492k buffers
> Swap: 1076312k total, 0k used, 1076312k free, 425956k cached
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 10956 spinymou 20 0 360m 49m 12m R 7 2.7 13:40.72 artsd
> 8489 root -51 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:18.90 IRQ-21
> 13184 spinymou 20 0 18888 1288 936 R 0 0.1 0:00.11 top
> 1 root 20 0 10244 760 624 S 0 0.0 0:01.01 init
> 2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
> 3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00
> posix_cpu_timer
> 4 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00
> softirq-high/0
> 5 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:40.28
> softirq-timer/0
> 6 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.40
> softirq-net-tx/
> 7 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:04.25
> softirq-net-rx/
> 8 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00
> softirq-block/0
> 9 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01
> softirq-tasklet
> 10 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.57
> softirq-sched/0
> 11 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.11
> softirq-rcu/0
> 12 root 10 -10 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 desched/0
> 13 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1
> 14 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00
> posix_cpu_timer
> 15 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00
> softirq-high/1
> 16 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:25.01
> softirq-timer/1
> 17 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.15
> softirq-net-tx/
> 18 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01
> softirq-net-rx/
> 19 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00
> softirq-block/1
> 20 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00
> softirq-tasklet
> 21 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.61
> softirq-sched/1
> 22 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.52
> softirq-rcu/1
> 23 root 10 -10 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 desched/1
> 24 root -2 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.43 events/0
> 25 root -2 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.63 events/1
> 26 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
> 27 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
> 44 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.03 kblockd/0
> 45 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 kblockd/1
> 46 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
> spinymouse@64studio:~$ cat /proc/interrupts
> CPU0 CPU1
> 0: 212 0 IO-APIC-edge timer
> 1: 10 7303 IO-APIC-edge i8042
> 7: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge parport0
> 8: 1 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc
> 9: 0 1 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
> 12: 1371 1092071 IO-APIC-edge i8042
> 14: 141 182726 IO-APIC-edge ide0
> 16: 1 250 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb1
> 17: 0 56 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb2,
> ohci_hcd:usb4
> 18: 0 2 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb3,
> ohci_hcd:usb5
> 19: 1620 293318 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb6, eth1
> 20: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi libata
> 21: 268 450583 IO-APIC-fasteoi ICE1712
> 22: 0 3 IO-APIC-fasteoi libata, ohci1394
> NMI: 0 0
> LOC: 14198799 14198726
> ERR: 0
> spinymouse@64studio:~$
>
> 64studio:/home/spinymouse# kill 10956
> 64studio:/home/spinymouse# top
> top - 02:32:45 up 4:24, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.07, 0.08
> Tasks: 147 total, 1 running, 146 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 0.2%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi,
> 0.0%si, 0.0%st
> Mem: 1911196k total, 798568k used, 1112628k free, 60084k buffers
> Swap: 1076312k total, 0k used, 1076312k free, 429172k cached
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 13275 root 20 0 18888 1284 936 R 0 0.1 0:00.18 top
> 1 root 20 0 10244 760 624 S 0 0.0 0:01.02 init
> 2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
> 3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00
> posix_cpu_timer
> 4 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00
> softirq-high/0
> 5 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:45.61
> softirq-timer/0
> 6 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.41
> softirq-net-tx/
> 7 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:04.30
> softirq-net-rx/
> 8 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00
> softirq-block/0
> 9 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01
> softirq-tasklet
> 10 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.60
> softirq-sched/0
> 11 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.11
> softirq-rcu/0
> 12 root 10 -10 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 desched/0
> 13 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1
> 14 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00
> posix_cpu_timer
> 15 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00
> softirq-high/1
> 16 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:28.19
> softirq-timer/1
> 17 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.15
> softirq-net-tx/
> 18 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01
> softirq-net-rx/
> 19 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00
> softirq-block/1
> 20 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00
> softirq-tasklet
> 21 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.64
> softirq-sched/1
> 22 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.53
> softirq-rcu/1
> 23 root 10 -10 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 desched/1
> 24 root -2 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.50 events/0
> 25 root -2 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.71 events/1
> 26 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
> 27 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
> 44 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.03 kblockd/0
> 45 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 kblockd/1
> 46 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
> 47 root -51 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 IRQ-9
> 160 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00
> ksuspend_usbd
> 64studio:/home/spinymouse#
>
> Okay, I clearly run arts accidentally, and once the daemon has been
> started, it will run until I kill it manually. Is there a way to banish
> arts?
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>
>
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