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conky package

gnome-settings-daemon is eating 1% CPU

Asked by Candle Jack

I just set up conky and have been watching my top.. (http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/7852/screenje4.png)

Is there any reason for the settings daemon to use even 1% of CPU while idling? This is a constant ~1% usage no matter what I'm doing. Is there something I could be running that's spamming the settings daemon with requests? I'm running fluxbox, have a few gnome terminals open as well as Pidgin, and let gnome (must be gnome-settings-daemon since nautilus isn't running) handle my wallpaper. A restart doesn't fix it.

Thanks!

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#1

yes thats normal I believe because the settings daemon constantly monitors the settings/preferences of each session and as a result the process will b e running from start of the session to the end and when a process runs it takes a small percentage of your cpu and no worries or cpu is used to perform computations while processing commands and other stuff so a small percentage is used up to do so...

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