[Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

Fri Jul 1 03:53:39 CEST 2011

On Thursday, June 30, 2011 05:23:58 pm Marc Paré wrote:
+> Le 2011-06-30 18:34, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU a écrit :
+> > This is making me crazy. After upgrading to KDE 4.6.90 (cauldron, of
+> > course), the bloody m*f*er kded4 (the worse idea in KDE4) constantly
+> > takes 55-75% CPU.
+> > 
+> > Of course, killing it is possible, but this affects the plasmoids. (E.g.
+> > it made me inadvertently filling an invalid bug report 1981, which
+> > disappeared once I let kded4 live.)
+> > 
+> > Really, isn't anybody experiencing high CPU from kded4?
+> > 
+> > (This is making me crazy. Otherwise, I'll tell you some day about a
+> > bug/crash that was *accidentally* fixed by KDE 4.6.90.)
+> > 
+> > Thanks,
+> > R-C aka beranger
+> 
+> Mine was doing this and I tried to stop it (I don't really know how to
+> do this), so in the end I let it go. It has now stopped. Could it be
+> that it is indexing all of your files? I know that I have 600 gigs of
+> data, and, if KDE4 was trying to index all of these files (photos, music
+> and larger LibreOffice files that it would take quite a while to index
+> them.
+> 
+> Maybe this is the problem? My CPU has returned to normal after a couple
+> days of "churning". I also never log-out of my system.
+> 
+> Cheers
+> 
+> Marc
+I get 50% on a VM
+-- 
+Thomas
+