Multiple xfdesktops running, and very slow startup

[Hinko Kocevar]

Chris G wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 03:01:18PM +0000, Liviu Andronic wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>>> Something is using lots of memory too, all 8Gb is used up by the time
>>> the desktop is running and before I've done anything much.
>>>
>> After logging in, did you try to switch virtual console and monitor
>> the memory usage in top?
> 
> Yes, that's exactly what I was doing.  Although all of the memory was
> eaten up there didn't seem to be any process in particular that was
> using it.

For me it was xfdesktop processes spawning and dying only at login.
Essentially the system would recover, when all xfdektops except one died.

Regards,
Hinko

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