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List:       kde-cygwin
Subject:    [KDE 3.1.1] kded.exe incessantly browses thru file system when
From:       Heribert Slama <slama-h () gmx ! net>
Date:       2003-09-03 1:09:21
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Hi,

The first symptom was a high CPU usage of ~30% when KDE just sat on
the screen idling. Looking into that, I found out piece by piece:

	1) AntiVir Guard consumed ~10% kded.exe the rest; Antivir
could be turned off. Its statistics showed...
	2) a constant flurry of file accesses in the
c:\cygwin\opt\kde3 tree.

Got myself Filemon from Sysinternals.com to log these crazy<g>
acesses (open, read). Here is short sample (OS is Windows 2000):

	[Hope, the lines are not wrapped on sending;-)]

> 108664	00:26:03.491	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\System\Windows\	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open Directory  Access: All	
> 108665	00:26:03.491	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\System\Windows\	SUCCESS	FileBothDirectoryInformation: \
> *	
> 108666	00:26:03.491	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\System\Windows\	SUCCESS	FileBothDirectoryInformation	
> 
> 108667	00:26:03.491	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\System\Windows\	NO \
> MORE FILES	FileBothDirectoryInformation	
> 108668	00:26:03.491	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\System\Windows	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: All	
> 108669	00:26:03.491	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\System\Windows	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: 00020000	
> 108670	00:26:03.491	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> SECURITY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\System\Windows	SUCCESS		
> 108671	00:26:03.491	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> INFORMATION	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Toys	SUCCESS	Attributes: D	
> 108672	00:26:03.491	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> INFORMATION	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Toys	SUCCESS	Attributes: D	
> 108673	00:26:03.491	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Toys	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: All	
> 108674	00:26:03.491	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Toys\	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open Directory  Access: All	
> 108675	00:26:03.491	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Toys\	SUCCESS	FileBothDirectoryInformation: \
> *	
> 108676	00:26:03.491	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Toys\	SUCCESS	FileBothDirectoryInformation	
> 
> 108677	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Toys\	NO \
> MORE FILES	FileBothDirectoryInformation	
> 108678	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Toys	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: All	
> 108679	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Toys	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: 00020000	
> 108680	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> SECURITY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Toys	SUCCESS		
> 108681	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> INFORMATION	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities	SUCCESS	Attributes: D	
> 108682	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> INFORMATION	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities	SUCCESS	Attributes: D	
> 108683	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: All	
> 108684	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities\	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open Directory  Access: All	
> 108685	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities\	SUCCESS	FileBothDirectoryInformation: \
> *	
> 108686	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities\	SUCCESS	FileBothDirectoryInformation	
> 
> 108687	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities\	NO \
> MORE FILES	FileBothDirectoryInformation	
> 108688	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: All	
> 108689	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: 00020000	
> 108690	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> SECURITY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities	SUCCESS		
> 108691	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> INFORMATION	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities\More	SUCCESS	Attributes: D	
> 108692	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> INFORMATION	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities\More	SUCCESS	Attributes: D	
> 108693	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities\More	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: All	
> 108694	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities\More\	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open Directory  Access: All	
> 108695	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities\More\	SUCCESS	FileBothDirectoryInformation: \
> *	
> 108696	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities\More\	SUCCESS	FileBothDirectoryInformation	
> 
> 108697	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities\More\	NO \
> MORE FILES	FileBothDirectoryInformation	
> 108698	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities\More	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: All	
> 108699	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities\More	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: 00020000	
> 108700	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> SECURITY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities\More	SUCCESS		
> 108701	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> INFORMATION	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities\XUtilities	SUCCESS	Attributes: \
> D	
> 108702	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> INFORMATION	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities\XUtilities	SUCCESS	Attributes: \
> D	
> 108703	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities\XUtilities	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: All	
> 108704	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities\XUtilities\	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open Directory  Access: All	
> 108705	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities\XUtilities\	SUCCESS	FileBothDirectoryInformation: \
> *	
> 108706	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities\XUtilities\	SUCCESS	FileBothDirectoryInformation	
> 
> 108707	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities\XUtilities\	NO \
> MORE FILES	FileBothDirectoryInformation	
> 108708	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities\XUtilities	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: All	
> 108709	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities\XUtilities	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: 00020000	
> 108710	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> SECURITY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\applnk\Utilities\XUtilities	SUCCESS		
> 108711	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> INFORMATION	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\apps\kconf_update	SUCCESS	Attributes: D	
> 108712	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> INFORMATION	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\apps\kconf_update	SUCCESS	Attributes: D	
> 108713	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\apps\kconf_update	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: All	
> 108714	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\apps\kconf_update\	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open Directory  Access: All	
> 108715	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\apps\kconf_update\	SUCCESS	FileBothDirectoryInformation: \
> *	
> 108716	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\apps\kconf_update\	SUCCESS	FileBothDirectoryInformation	
> 
> 108717	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\apps\kconf_update\	NO \
> MORE FILES	FileBothDirectoryInformation	
> 108718	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\apps\kconf_update	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: All	
> 108719	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\apps\kconf_update	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: 00020000	
> 108720	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> SECURITY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\apps\kconf_update	SUCCESS		
> 108721	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> INFORMATION	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\mimelnk	SUCCESS	Attributes: D	
> 108722	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> INFORMATION	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\mimelnk	SUCCESS	Attributes: D	
> 108723	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\mimelnk	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: All	
> 108724	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\mimelnk\	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open Directory  Access: All	
> 108725	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\mimelnk\	SUCCESS	FileBothDirectoryInformation: \
> *	
> 108726	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\mimelnk\	SUCCESS	FileBothDirectoryInformation	
> 
> 108727	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\mimelnk\	NO \
> MORE FILES	FileBothDirectoryInformation	
> 108728	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\mimelnk	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: All	
> 108729	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\mimelnk	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: 00020000	
> 108730	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> SECURITY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\mimelnk	SUCCESS		
> 108731	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> INFORMATION	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\mimelnk	SUCCESS	Attributes: D	
> 108732	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> INFORMATION	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\mimelnk	SUCCESS	Attributes: D	
> 108733	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\mimelnk	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: All	
> 108734	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\mimelnk\	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open Directory  Access: All	
> 108735	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\mimelnk\	SUCCESS	FileBothDirectoryInformation: \
> *	
> 108736	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\mimelnk\	SUCCESS	FileBothDirectoryInformation	
> 
> 108737	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\mimelnk\	NO \
> MORE FILES	FileBothDirectoryInformation	
> 108738	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\mimelnk	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: All	
> 108739	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\mimelnk	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: 00020000	
> 108740	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> SECURITY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\mimelnk	SUCCESS		
> 108741	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> INFORMATION	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\mimelnk\all	SUCCESS	Attributes: D	
> 108742	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> INFORMATION	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\mimelnk\all	SUCCESS	Attributes: D	
> 108743	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\mimelnk\all	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: All	
> 108744	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\mimelnk\all\	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open Directory  Access: All	
> 108745	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\mimelnk\all\	SUCCESS	FileBothDirectoryInformation: \
> *	
> 108746	00:26:03.501	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\share\mimelnk\all\	SUCCESS	FileBothDirectoryInformation	 \
> 
[snip]


*************>>>> The user's home dir is involved too:

> 109057	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> INFORMATION	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk	SUCCESS	Attributes: D	
> 109058	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> INFORMATION	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk	SUCCESS	Attributes: D	
> 109059	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: All	
> 109060	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk\	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open Directory  Access: All	
> 109061	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk\	SUCCESS	FileBothDirectoryInformation: \
> *	
> 109062	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk\	SUCCESS	FileBothDirectoryInformation	
> 
> 109063	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk\	NO \
> MORE FILES	FileBothDirectoryInformation	
> 109064	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: All	
> 109065	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: 00020000	
> 109066	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> SECURITY	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk	SUCCESS		
> 109067	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> INFORMATION	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk\Editors	SUCCESS	Attributes: \
> D	
> 109068	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> INFORMATION	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk\Editors	SUCCESS	Attributes: \
> D	
> 109069	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk\Editors	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: All	
> 109070	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk\Editors\	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open Directory  Access: All	
> 109071	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk\Editors\	SUCCESS	FileBothDirectoryInformation: \
> *	
> 109072	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk\Editors\	SUCCESS	FileBothDirectoryInformation	
> 
> 109073	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk\Editors\	NO \
> MORE FILES	FileBothDirectoryInformation	
> 109074	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk\Editors	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: All	
> 109075	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk\Editors	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: 00020000	
> 109076	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> SECURITY	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk\Editors	SUCCESS		
> 109077	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> INFORMATION	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk\Internet	SUCCESS	Attributes: \
> D	
> 109078	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> INFORMATION	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk\Internet	SUCCESS	Attributes: \
> D	
> 109079	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk\Internet	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: All	
> 109080	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk\Internet\	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open Directory  Access: All	
> 109081	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk\Internet\	SUCCESS	FileBothDirectoryInformation: \
> *	
> 109082	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk\Internet\	SUCCESS	FileBothDirectoryInformation	
> 
> 109083	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	DIRECTORY	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk\Internet\	NO \
> MORE FILES	FileBothDirectoryInformation	
> 109084	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk\Internet	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: All	
> 109085	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	OPEN	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk\Internet	SUCCESS	Options: \
> Open  Access: 00020000	
> 109086	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> SECURITY	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk\Internet	SUCCESS		
> 109087	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	QUERY \
> INFORMATION	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\share\applnk\Multimedia	SUCCESS	Attributes: \
> D	
> 109088	00:26:04.422	kded.exe:1656	QUERY INFORMATION	C:\cygwin\home\Slama1\.kde31\
[snip]

********************************

You can find a series of 2500 entries at my website (about 2
complete cycles):
http://straw.gmxhome.de/samples/kde-cygwin/kde-filemon1.log.txt

********************************


AFAICT the same subtrees are re-visited endlessly at top speed<g>
consuming ~20% of CPU power (1GHz P-III) :-<<

Best regards,
	-Heribert

-- 
Heribert Slama
Muttenz, Switzerland

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