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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE3.2 eats up a lot of cpu cycles
From:       "Patricio Bruna V." <pbruna () masev ! cl>
Date:       2003-12-24 0:56:07
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El Mar 23 Dic 2003 19:24, namaseit@madpenguins.net escribió:

I had the same problem, then i realize that some programs were the 
responsables.
I kill them (klaptop daemon and kopete, when was unable to connect) and all 
works perfect

> >
> > 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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