[opensuse] CPU at 100% all the time?
I did something silly... I enabled Nepomuk and Strigi while working through some of the features of KDE with a friend. After showing what it was.. explaining a little, I switched off Strigi and then Nepomuk. Since then, whenever the computer is idle, Xorg eats up 100% CPU. If I bump the mouse it drops to 2%-ish. I can't find out what is really going on here... Nepomuk is no longer running (I can't see it in the process list or with top). Nothing else was added or installed/updated. The ONLY change made between when the computer was behaving normal and now is that I enabled Nepomuk for about 10 minutes. I've done all I can think of to try and "fix" this... I even rebooted. Nothing changes... the computer sits idle for a period, and bam... 100% CPU (I know when this happens because the cooling fans go into overdrive... a normally silent system starts to sound like a jet engine). Anyone have any tips or ideas on how I can fix this... or start digging into what went haywire? Xorg version is 7.4-35.3 KDE4 version is 4.4.3-83.1 openSUSE 11.2 64 bit install C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Donnerstag, den 20.05.2010, 14:36 +0200 schrieb C:
Anyone have any tips or ideas on how I can fix this... or start digging into what went haywire?
look at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584919 -- Rainer Klier Research & Development xyzmo SIGNificant Group | Austria | USA | Germany A-4052 Ansfelden, Haiderstraße 23 Tel.: +43 7229 88060-0, E-Mail: rainer.klier@xyzmo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Rainer Klier said the following on 05/20/2010 09:26 AM:
Am Donnerstag, den 20.05.2010, 14:36 +0200 schrieb C:
Anyone have any tips or ideas on how I can fix this... or start digging into what went haywire?
Been there, done that, discussed the matter with various people. Kept fully up to date. All to no avail. While I couldn't produce this 'lock up' on demand, it quite consistently occured with using Firefox: opening a new tab, switching to FF, something. Sorry: none of that about XSYNC made any difference. What **DID** make a difference was crippling KDE4. I went into systemsettings -> general -> desktop -> desktop effects and DISABLED "enable desktop effects" No more animations or effect! But I've not had the problem since. -- It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. --Thomas Jefferson, (letter to Rev. James Madison, July 19, 1788) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 16:16, Anton Aylward wrote:
Rainer Klier said the following on 05/20/2010 09:26 AM:
Am Donnerstag, den 20.05.2010, 14:36 +0200 schrieb C:
Anyone have any tips or ideas on how I can fix this... or start digging into what went haywire?
Been there, done that, discussed the matter with various people. Kept fully up to date. All to no avail.
While I couldn't produce this 'lock up' on demand, it quite consistently occured with using Firefox: opening a new tab, switching to FF, something.
Sorry: none of that about XSYNC made any difference.
What **DID** make a difference was crippling KDE4. I went into systemsettings -> general -> desktop -> desktop effects and DISABLED "enable desktop effects"
No more animations or effect!
But I've not had the problem since.
Well... I seem to have "solved" it on my desktop... the bug info got me headed the right direction. I went to Configure Desktop > Advanced
Power Management and disabled the PowerDevil option. Then I disabled the Dim display option in the Performance profile.
All other settings are left as they were (desktop effects are enabled). I've been monitoring it now for a couple of hours, and the 100% CPU thing is not reoccurring. This seems to have fixed it, and it's an acceptable fix since I don't need/want Dim Display, and PowerDevil... for now. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 20 May 2010 17:14:30 C wrote:
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 16:16, Anton Aylward wrote:
Rainer Klier said the following on 05/20/2010 09:26 AM:
Am Donnerstag, den 20.05.2010, 14:36 +0200 schrieb C:
Anyone have any tips or ideas on how I can fix this... or start digging into what went haywire?
Been there, done that, discussed the matter with various people. Kept fully up to date. All to no avail.
While I couldn't produce this 'lock up' on demand, it quite consistently occured with using Firefox: opening a new tab, switching to FF, something.
Sorry: none of that about XSYNC made any difference.
What **DID** make a difference was crippling KDE4. I went into systemsettings -> general -> desktop -> desktop effects and DISABLED "enable desktop effects"
No more animations or effect!
But I've not had the problem since.
Well... I seem to have "solved" it on my desktop... the bug info got me headed the right direction. I went to Configure Desktop > Advanced
Power Management and disabled the PowerDevil option. Then I
disabled the Dim display option in the Performance profile.
All other settings are left as they were (desktop effects are enabled).
I've been monitoring it now for a couple of hours, and the 100% CPU thing is not reoccurring. This seems to have fixed it, and it's an acceptable fix since I don't need/want Dim Display, and PowerDevil... for now.
As long as you disable PowerDevil it cannot trigger the X server bug, but that doesn't save you from any other apps that use Xsync. You can disable PowerDevil in System Settings->Advanced->Service Manager. If you are affected by the bug please comment/vote on it and we may get an online update for 11.2. Will -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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