Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (6210 mails)

[François Pinard <pinard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[Clayton]

> Running SUSE 10.0 (retail).  I updated to KDE 3.5 (from apt) and now
> whenever I start Konqueror, it pushes my CPU to 100%, and it stays
> there. [...] Anyone else experiencing this?  Any suggestions for a way
> to track down the problem and fix it?

I got a problem which looks a bit similar, yet I would guess it is a
different one.  SuSE 10.0 is now very satisfactory for me.  But on my
initial tries, it was consuming all the CPU soon after graphical login,
and it took me a few visits (rebooting SuSE 9.2 in the meantime for the
necessities of real work) before I figured out where the problem was.

Strangely, whenever the `xterm' program in UTF-8 mode (either using the
`-u8' option, or having UTF-8 as part of the LANG environment variable),
X goes wild and trashes (responds more and more slowly), consuming all
the available CPU.  Killing `xterm' recovers the usual X pace.  This
is repeatable at will here.  I wonder if others could reproduce this
problem.  I'm using the YOU-downloaded NVidia driver, if it matters.

My solution was first to use `mlterm' instead of `xterm', but I did not
quickly find out how to select the font I wanted.  So, I recompiled and
installed `rxvt-unicode' from source, and all is perfect since I use it.

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François Pinard   http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca