If I mention Hitler, might it please kill this "thread" and perhaps prompt
you to post fresh messages for further questions, rather than replying to
existing messages.

Sorry to be a pain, but replying to existing messages keeps reference
information and results in a large, deep meandering thread, the subject of
which has now wondered off the edge of my 80 character display.

This question and others might also be better directed to
netbsd-users@netbsd.org. current-users, I believe, is more for specific
problems and questions about cutting edge base NetBSD.

Cheers,
Christian

PS. The "dancing icon" is probably some indication that your system is
    busy doing something. It is a common practice to give the user
    feedback to reassure them their request is being serviced.

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Zafer Aydogan wrote:

>Hej Newsgroup,
>
>Whenever I start an application in KDE a little icon beneath the mouse-arrow
>starts jumping until the program is loaded and then disappears.
>Normally.
>Whenever I start a big application, e.g. firefox, the little icon starts
>jumping, but even if the program is loaded & running, the icon keeps
>jumping, for the next 30 seconds and disappears then.
>This is kinda annoying and happens since KDE 3.1 to me. (self compiled).
>
>Is this, because of lack of Power (CPU,RAM, etc.) ?
>Has anybody noticed something similar?
>
>Here is a top dump, which maybe can help:
>
>load averages:  0.59,  0.62,  0.37    16:07:23
>50 processes:  1 runnable, 48 sleeping, 1 on processor
>
>Memory: 138M Act, 884K Wired, 57M Exec, 33M File, 337M Free
>Swap: 95M Total, 95M Free
>
>
>  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE      TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
>  297 zafer      2    0    10M   28M poll       0:02 94.19% 13.13%
>firefox-bin
>  602 root      29    0    10M   20M RUN        0:50  2.10%  2.10% XFree86
>  798 zafer      2    0  4264K   16M select     0:07  0.15%  0.15% kdeinit
>  698 zafer      2    0  3744K   13M poll       0:07  0.15%  0.15% kdeinit
>  854 zafer      2    0  4180K   16M select     0:09  0.05%  0.05% kdeinit
>  230 zafer      2    0  6296K   25M select     0:06  0.00%  0.00% kdeinit
>  917 zafer      2    0  3956K   16M select     0:02  0.00%  0.00% kdeinit
>  369 zafer      2    0  4880K 8132K select     0:02  0.00%  0.00% artsd
>  691 zafer      2    0  3528K   14M select     0:01  0.00%  0.00% kdeinit
>  103 zafer      2    0  3708K   13M select     0:01  0.00%  0.00% kdeinit
>  299 zafer     28    0   140K  736K CPU        0:00  0.00%  0.00% top
>   12 root      18    0     0K   31M syncer     0:00  0.00%  0.00% [ioflush]
>    2 root      14    0     0K   31M crypto_w   0:00  0.00%  0.00%
>[cryptoret]
>    7 root      10    0     0K   31M usbevt     0:00  0.00%  0.00% [usb1]
>    5 root      10    0     0K   31M usbevt     0:00  0.00%  0.00% [usb0]
>    6 root      10    0     0K   31M usbtsk     0:00  0.00%  0.00% [usbtask]
>    8 root      10    0     0K   31M pmsreset   0:00  0.00%  0.00% [pms0]
>  572 root      10    0   200K 1372K wait       0:00  0.00%  0.00% kdm
>
>bash-2.05b$
>
>Regards, Zafer.
>
>ps: System is Pentium 4 /w 1.5 GHz, netbsd 2.99.10 and KDE 3.3.1
>
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>
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