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#161 Post by Barburo »

... more on my Chrome using 100% of CPU problem. I got the following information from this url:
https://sites.google.com/site/easylinux ... k-too-much
and for my desktop box it really made Chrome run much better in Mint14. It is an older 64-bit machine but no dinosaur:
My machine characteristics are:
Processor : AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+
Memory : 1020MB
Operating System : Lighthouse 64 6.02 B2
-Display- Resolution : 1680x1050 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on ATI R481
The fix to reduce "swappiness" was this:
Swap use (swappiness) is too high: When Ubuntu uses the swap too much, the computer slows down a lot.
In a terminal:
cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
The result will probably be 60.

Copy/paste the following lines to the bottom of /etc/sysctl.conf:

#
# Decrease swap usage to a workable level
vm.swappiness=10
# Improve cache management
vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50

Save the text file and reboot. Note: your machine might benefit from an even bigger decrease in swappiness. A useful rule of thumb might be this:
1 GB RAM or more: swappiness at 10 Less than 1 GB RAM: swappiness at 5
I looked but there is no /etc/sysctl.conf file in LHPup, but I am intrigued by this fix for Ubuntu/Mint.
Does anyone know if there is a way that "swappiness" can be reduced in LHP to see whether that helps with Chrome going to 100% CPU and staying there?

B.
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lsblk 100% CPU usage at boot - needs to be killed to mount

#162 Post by Littleman »

Hi,
first post here :) I'm new to puppy linux & I love lighthouse linux so far.
My problem is that the lsblk process eats up 100% of my dual core at boot.

My guess is that this process is used in the automounting process of my drives at boot (??). If i kill the process, my drives icon automagically appear in the bottom left corner of my desktop.

So...I guess this process has trouble doing something with one of my partitions at boot.
It seems to be stuck on a sda1 partition, which is one of those "system reserved" ntfs partitions from windows.

Am I alone?
Help please, thanks :)

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Re: lsblk 100% CPU usage at boot - needs to be killed to mount

#163 Post by tazoc »

Littleman wrote:Hi,
first post here :) I'm new to puppy linux & I love lighthouse linux so far.
My problem is that the lsblk process eats up 100% of my dual core at boot.
Welcome Littleman and thank you for the bug report. I have not yet been able to reproduce, but I willl look into this and hopefully find a fix. The script /usr/sbin/blkid-read-label uses lsblk so I will look for an alternative method of volume label detection. My first thought was to use busybox, though it does not have an lsblk applet. But maybe busybox blkid would work... Can you paste this into a terminal please:

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busybox blkid /dev/sda1
and post the output. This is what I'm seeing:

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bash-4.1# busybox blkid /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1: LABEL="SYSTEM" UUID="1C98-8F10" TYPE="vfat"
[url=http://www.lhpup.org/][b][size=100]lhpup.org[/size][/b] [img]http://www.lhpup.org/gallery/images/favicon.png[/img][/url] [url=http://www.lhpup.org/release-lhp.htm#602]Lighthouse 64 6.02[/url]

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Re: lid suspend

#164 Post by tazoc »

Marv wrote:Found one very small flea affecting lid suspend on the Fujitsu s6520 laptop I reported on earlier.
Suspend occurred correctly on lid closure, wireless shut down ok. On reopening, x restarted, network enabled, frisbee acquired a lease... and then it immediately suspended again.

Cause is, in /etc/acpi/events,lid calls /etc/acpi/action/suspend.sh for any lid event, open or close. Could put a test in it so only a closure calls suspend.sh but the appropiate test already exists in lines 4 through 7 of /etc/acpi/actions/suspend.sh. I uncommented those lines as below and changed the comment line slightly to better reflect what it does

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# do not suspend on lid open event
if [ "$(cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/*/state | grep open)" != "" ] ; then
exit
fi
and the false resuspend is gone.
Thank you, Marv. :D I'll include your fix in the next release.
Jim1911 wrote:Hi TaZoc,

Having fun with it, as you can see eSword works find as well as the obsolete commercial program, Quickverse 2011, running under Wine installed with greendome's latest wine-1.6-rc5-i486_v1.pet along with Fatdog's 32bit-slacko.sfs. You may want to add them to your update with a reminder that Fatdog's 32bit-slacko.sfs must also be loaded.

Regards,
Jim
Hi Jim, thanks for the feedback. I think I had updated the Wine SFS with Fatdog's 32bit-slacko. I understand Wine 1.6 stable has been released, so I will include that in the next LH64 Wine SFS.
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#165 Post by edoc »

edoc wrote:
tazoc wrote:... next I think I would try the Multiple Sound Card Wizard, also found in Setup under the main menu.
That got me some volume, including the boot-up waves ... :-)

However, the taskbar volume control is stuck on 65295% - if that may be a hint to anyone.

Also, Pmusic is not working.
tazoc wrote:If that doesn't work--my last idea is to delete the file asound.state inside /var/lib/alsa/ and reboot.
I will try this next.
I tried deleting asound.state

No joy ...
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#166 Post by tazoc »

edoc,
Please try exiting Retrovol, (right-click speaker icon -> Exit) and open /root in ROX File Manager and rename or delete .retrovolrc

Then restart Retrovol from the Multimedia menu.
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#167 Post by edoc »

tazoc wrote:edoc,
Please try exiting Retrovol, (right-click speaker icon -> Exit) and open /root in ROX File Manager and rename or delete .retrovolrc

Then restart Retrovol from the Multimedia menu.
No joy.

The slider is greyed-out in Retrovol - Tray
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#168 Post by gcmartin »

User use error. Found why.

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#169 Post by Q5sys »

http://q5sys.info/lhp6/GSmartControl.txz

Includes:
gsmartcontrol-0.8.6-x86_64-1
smartmontools-5.43-x86_64-1

Utility for checking the status of your Hard drive health.

Tested on LHP601, Should work fine with 602.

http://q5sys.info/lhp6/gsmartcontrol-01.png
http://q5sys.info/lhp6/gsmartcontrol-02.png
http://q5sys.info/lhp6/gsmartcontrol-03.png
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#170 Post by tazoc »

Barburo wrote:... more on my Chrome using 100% of CPU problem. I got the following information from this url:
https://sites.google.com/site/easylinux ... k-too-much
and for my desktop box it really made Chrome run much better in Mint14....

The fix to reduce "swappiness" was this:
Swap use (swappiness) is too high: When Ubuntu uses the swap too much, the computer slows down a lot.
In a terminal:
cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
The result will probably be 60.

Copy/paste the following lines to the bottom of /etc/sysctl.conf:

#
# Decrease swap usage to a workable level
vm.swappiness=10
# Improve cache management
vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50

Save the text file and reboot. Note: your machine might benefit from an even bigger decrease in swappiness. A useful rule of thumb might be this:
1 GB RAM or more: swappiness at 10 Less than 1 GB RAM: swappiness at 5
I looked but there is no /etc/sysctl.conf file in LHPup, but I am intrigued by this fix for Ubuntu/Mint.
Does anyone know if there is a way that "swappiness" can be reduced in LHP to see whether that helps with Chrome going to 100% CPU and staying there?

B.
Nice find! Please paste this into a terminal and press Enter:

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echo 10 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
echo 50 > /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure
If it helps, you might paste it into /etc/rc.d/rc.local which will persist the setting across reboots.
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#171 Post by edoc »

Still no joy re. sound.

Any hints as to where else to look to be found here, please?
PCI Devices

Audio device Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson Azalia Controller (rev 01)

Kernel Modules
Loaded Modules

snd_seq_dummy ALSA sequencer MIDI-through client
snd_seq_oss OSS-compatible sequencer module
snd_seq_midi_event MIDI byte <-> sequencer event coder
snd_seq Advanced Linux Sound Architecture sequencer.
snd_seq_device ALSA sequencer device management
snd_pcm_oss PCM OSS emulation for ALSA.
snd_mixer_oss Mixer OSS emulation for ALSA.
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#172 Post by tazoc »

Q5sys wrote:http://q5sys.info/lhp6/GSmartControl.tar.xz

Includes:
gsmartcontrol-0.8.6-x86_64-1
smartmontools-5.43-x86_64-1

Utility for checking the status of your Hard drive health.

Tested on LHP601, Should work fine with 602.

http://q5sys.info/lhp6/gsmartcontrol-01.png
http://q5sys.info/lhp6/gsmartcontrol-02.png
http://q5sys.info/lhp6/gsmartcontrol-03.png
PPM doesn't yet support .tar.xz so just rename it to GSmartControl.txz before installing; then it will work. Next release will support .tar.xz.
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#173 Post by Q5sys »

tazoc wrote:PPM doesn't yet support .tar.xz so just rename it to GSmartControl.txz before installing; then it will work. Next release will support .tar.xz.
I updated the original file name and the post so it now its a .txz file.
I had a brain fart about what PPM uses, since I usually just manually extract and install.

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#174 Post by tazoc »

edoc wrote:Still no joy re. sound.

Any hints as to where else to look to be found here, please?
Did you say you have sound, but the volume control/mixer (Retrovol) sliders are inoperable/gray-ed out?

If so, please try alsamixer (menu -> Multimedia -> Mixers; http://www.lhpup.org/help/faqs/sound.html)

I may have a similar bug; I'm using an HDMI output and Retrolvol has operable sliders, but none of them actually change the volume. So I use VLC and adjust the volume from within VLC.

If no sound at all, then try a different card in Multiple sound card wizard. Make a note of your selection(s), as it does not indicate which device you are currently using.
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#175 Post by edoc »

I had already adjusted the sound in Alsa Mixer - no joy there.

Oddly, f6 in Alsa Mixer is supposed to select the device but it pops up the word "Darker" on the screen.

I will try the selection of sound cards again but I think I have previously cycled through all of the options.

If you are seeing this as well then it's likely a bug in the kernel, a driver, or a conflict somewhere - do you know if bug reports have been submitted to Barry and elsewhere?
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#176 Post by Q5sys »

edoc wrote:I had already adjusted the sound in Alsa Mixer - no joy there.

Oddly, f6 in Alsa Mixer is supposed to select the device but it pops up the word "Darker" on the screen.

I will try the selection of sound cards again but I think I have previously cycled through all of the options.

If you are seeing this as well then it's likely a bug in the kernel, a driver, or a conflict somewhere - do you know if bug reports have been submitted to Barry and elsewhere?
I dont think Barry can really help in this case. If its a bug in the kernel then its got to be specific to the kernel Taz is using in LHP; which to my knowledge is not one that Barry has messed around with. I dont recall any sound bugs though being reported in fatdog though. Do you know for certain the exact audio hardware you have? (i havent re-read the whole thread, so if you've already stated that I apologize).
Its possible (though I doubt it) that the kernel doesnt have a module for it.

I had serious audio issues with past versions, but it wasnt LHP's fault. My hardware had multiple sound devices and they were conflicting with each other. My new system only has one so I've not had any problems since.

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#177 Post by edoc »

PCI Devices

Audio device Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson Azalia Controller (rev 01)
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#178 Post by edoc »

Here is what multi-mixer tells me:

http://kd4e.com/kd4e-images/stuff/multi-mixer1.png
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#179 Post by edoc »

I believe that my taskbar/Retrovol sound problem has been solved.

In Retrovol I changed "hw:0" to "hw:1" and I dragged "IEC Playback Switch" to the left column.

Prior to that I had checked the IEC box in the window that appeared prior to selting File to get to all of the other selections - but I don't know if that mattered - and unlike prior experiments that box has now disappeared. (I'm guess that is due to the change to "hw:1".)

Now to figure out why pmusic isn't working - it looks OK but no sound.

Rebooted and Retrovol changes held.

pmusic still not functioning - looks as if it's playing but no sound even when pmusic volume slider on high.

I tried changing the source directory to the location of the mp3 file - nada.

I chose a selection something like display play and a huge play icon filled the screen and froze it.

Ctrl-Esc got me a menu, I chose System - Task Manager (lxtask) then right-clicked on the pmusic tab in the taskbar and chose Close Window - that returned the screen to normal.

No idea what's up with pmusic.
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#180 Post by gcmartin »

edoc wrote: ... Rebooted and Retrovol changes held.

pmusic still not functioning ....
Hi @Edoc

This might help isolate that. Check to see if you can get sound via a Youtube. If so, drag your local mp3 to the Play icon on your desktop.

Let us knwo what you find with current Retrovol improvements you made

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