Re: Gkrellm locking

Bill Wilson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gkrellm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:45:46 -0300
"Salatiel Filho" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am using gkrellm and somehow everytime i use gkrellmms plugin for a
> while gkrellm locks. Any idea how to fix this ?

I've seen this happen because of the combination of a slow sensor reading
thread and gkrellmms calling a libxmms function which then locks up gkrellm.
I think there's a race condition somewhere caused by the libxmms function
calling setuid() which in turns tries to signal the setuid change to all gkrellm
threads, but I never have been able to track down a good fix.

You can have a slow sensor reading thread if you are monitoring a GPU
temp (which runs the nvidia-settings command which can be a bit slow),
or if you have a sensor chip which is slow to read (ASB100 is the one I know
of).  If it's the GPU temp, then I guess you have to quit monitoring it or stop
using gkrellmms.  If it's because of monitoring the ASB100 chip, then you
can install mbmon and use it for getting sensor data instead of using the
internal gkrellm sensor functions.

Bill

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