Process Manager: KP vs gPS

[RMW]

I get a lot of hanging processes for one reason or another. gXine is particularly guilty of locking and causing problems with anything else that tries to create sounds (why isn't the sound multithreaded on everything to prevent this?)

Normally when this happens I use the stock KP process manager to try to kill off the hung process. Unfortunately KP doesn't work about half the time.

Yesterday I installed the gPS dotpup, and it's worked flawlessly so far. I've been able to recover the system every time, without having to exit and restart the window manager as I've had to do in the past when KP wouldn't do the job.

Might want to consider replacing the KP process manager with gPS, as gPS seems to work much, much better.

[MU]

(why isn't the sound multithreaded on everything to prevent this?).

Because the new soundsystem "Jack" is not very spread yet.
Someone might give it a try.
I think KDE plans to use it in future versions.

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I never tried KP, I use gPS and like it, too.

Mark