A BDI quirk

The other day, after running EMC stuff for several hours while editing
text, writing letters, and shoving a bunch of things onto my desktop, my
TNG display seemed to get a bit jerky. I found a process, something to
do with mini-icons, that was sucking up about 98% of the processor. It
is common for Linux houskeeping programs to grab large chunks of
processor but only for short periods of time. This one must have been a
desktop system bug. I killed the process and my screen returned to
normal.

If you run a BDI, and you do those other sorts of things with it, you can
easily see what processes are running and how much memory or cpu they are
in charge of by starting KPM from a terminal. You can also make a handy
icon on the desktop and click to start it.

One caution, programs like KPM do not reliably report all that is
happening on the real-time side of the kernel. Much of the time, it just
appears that the displayed processes take more time and effort than they
do if the real-time does not have a task or module running.

Ray