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

Sat Jul 2 11:05:37 CEST 2011

2011/7/2 Balcaen John <mikala at mageia.org>:
+> On Saturday 02 July 2011 09:45:15 Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+> [...]
+>> Did that (after installing all updates up to 07:00 UTC), no signs of
+>> any I/O activity other than the usual. Still, one of the 4 cores is on
+>> full load. What strikes me here is:
+>>  - on a CPU with 1 core, this is fully loaded
+>>  - on a dual core CPU only 1 core is loaded
+>>  - on a quadcore CPU only 1 core is loaded.
+>>
+>> So, whatever it is, it affects only one CPU core no matter how many
+>> cores the CPU offers.
+> Kded is not taking 100% of one core here since the ntrack update.
+> Did you try eventually to unload modules from kcmshell4 kcmkded  ?
+> (especially the Network Status module which should be related to the ntrack
+> process)
+
+No, I did not alter anything. ATM I do not work with Cauldron, I only
+do the updates and watch.
+Except for such special cases, where I do something to give output to you :)
+
+I'm using gkrellm as "rough" information, so I know that in my i3 CPU
+only one core is affected (which changes from one core to another
+occasionally)
+
+As kmail crashes right at the start (reproducible) and takes the whole
+kontact down with it, I couldn't use the system anyway.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+