Tuxcards + run away process

[kitsune]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:49:07 -0500
epilogue at allstream.net wrote:

> 
> Take II.    :)
> 
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 20:29:12 -0500
> From: epilogue at allstream.net
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Tuxcards + run away process
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have been having problems with the program Tuxcards
> (ports/deskutils). After about 5 minutes open, it's process seems to
> run away (whether or not I am actively using the program).
> 
> I have built Tuxcards from ports and also tried installing the pkg,
> but both yield the same result:
> 
> last pid: 14101;  load averages:  0.59,  0.21,  0.15                
>       
>      up 0+00:34:17  20:05:28 36 processes:  4 running, 32 sleeping
> CPU states: 95.3% user,  0.0% nice,  0.8% system,  3.9% interrupt, 
> 0.0% idle Mem: 85M Active, 91M Inact, 40M Wired, 3048K Cache, 48M
> Buf, 154M Free Swap: 800M Total, 800M Free
> 
> PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU
> COMMAND 14014 epi         49   0 24716K 20680K RUN      0:58 90.19%
> 90.19% tuxcards 172    epi         28   0 41648K 40152K RUN     
> 0:59  0.05%  0.05% XFree86 186    epi  	    2   0 41252K
> 33388K poll     0:17  0.00%  0.00%  opera...
> 
> I would like to trace the problem, but am unsure where to start.  If
> anyone could point me in the right direction, it would be very much
> appreciated.

Check out ktrace. I've used a bit when trouble shooting stuff and it
can be handy at times.