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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE3.2 eats up a lot of cpu cycles
From:       namaseit () madpenguins ! net
Date:       2003-12-23 22:24:27
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Well im not sure but it sounds like your situation is an isolated event.
As I know myself and others have not experienced this. I ran KDE 3.2 beta2
on my laptop for about 2 weeks and it never gave me problems or
sluggishness.(its not on now cause I'm installing a new hard drive)

As well you could have used the precompiled binaries of beta2 for debian.
Unless you *wanted* to compile it. :)


> Hello,
>
> I compiled the current CVS  version of KDE3.2 on Debian SID (updated
> today) with gcc (GCC) 3.3.3 20031206 (prerelease) (Debian). I did make
> -f Makefile.cvs and ./configure --prefix=/usr/local. To start KDE3.2 I
> set the following variables:
>
> export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
> export KDEDIR=/usr/local/kde
> export KDEHOME=/home/michi/.kdecvs
>
> Everything seems to work fine and I am very impressed by the new
> KDE. I only found one problem. KDE3.2 eats up a lot of CPU-cycles,
> even if I am not doing anything at all:
>
> Here is the relevant output from top:
>
> top:
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 21208 root      16 -10 17108 8656 1848 S 41.1  6.8   2:12.96 XFree86
> 21339 michi     14    16728  16m  14m R 30.1 13.1   1:39.41 kdeinit
> 21250 michi     12    15460  15m  13m R 14.9 12.1   0:49.07 kdeinit
> 21290 michi     12    16036  15m  13m R 13.2 12.6   0:44.23 kdeinit
>
> ps aux:
> michi    21339 29.2 13.1 28444 16724 ?       R    10:48   1:51 kdeinit:
> kcmshell kwindecoration kwinactions kwinfocus kwinm
> michi    21250 12.7 12.1 29268 15456 ?       R    10:47   0:54 kdeinit:
> kded
> michi    21290 11.8 12.5 28744 16032 ?       S    10:47   0:49 kdeinit:
> kwin -session 117f000001000107134465600000106550000
>
>
> Why do these processes use so much cpu cycles? I do not have this
> problem with the regular KDE3.1.
>
> Maybe this is also of interest: I am using Plastik
> style/windowdecoration (both for KDE3.2 and KDE3.1.4 from Debian). I
> am using kernel 2.4.22 from Debian with ALSA. (I did not pass
> --with-alsa to configure, but sound works nevertheless, so I guess it
> uses the OSS compatibility-layer).
>
> It would be very nice to find out what is causing this huge CPU cycles
> consumption for me, because this renders KDE3.2 pretty useless on my
> laptop.
>
> Greetings,
> Michael
> --
> We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring
> will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
>
>
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