On Wednesday 02 September 2009 20:09:43 Emmett Culley wrote: > On 09/01/2009 10:24 AM, Emmett Culley wrote: > > Since upgrading to KDE 4.3 on Fedora 11 I have noticed that X CPU usage > > gets up to 99% of CPU usage and plasma-desktop stays around 20% CUP > > usage. If I shut everything down on the desktop the usage for both > > remains at 80 - 99% and 15- 20%. If I end the session (ctl-alt > > backspace) both X and plasma-desktop drop off to nil CPU usage. > > > > Upon restart of KDE CPU usage for X and plasma-desktop is sometimes > > normal (low) after the system settles, and some times not. But in all > > cases, after some time the CPU usage for X and plasma-desktop climb back > > up to 80 to 90% for X and 15 to 25% for plasma-desktop. > > > > Anybody else seeing this? > > > After more experimenting I've found the following: > > Each time I reboot my system, CPU usage for plasma-desktop and X is high > (as described above). > > If I log out (via the Leave menu) and log back in, the high CPU usages > remains the same. > > If I kill X (ctl-alt backspace) then log back in, the desktop comes back up > with "normal" CPU usage for both, and it stays that way. > > I have four CPU cores (two dual core Opterons), so the CPU usage is almost > unnoticeable in the UI. The UI is just sluggish enough to be noticeable. > But, it wasn't until I noticed consistently high CPU usage in Gkrellm that > I began to investigate. > Of course your problem may be entirely different, but every time gkrellm shows me this runaway behaviour I open top. Without fail it is either firefox, thunderbird or nspluginviewer. Killing those invariably stops the problem. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090903/c504dc33/attachment.bin
