On Saturday 22 August 2009 03:40:20 pm Patrick Shanahan wrote:
I have isolated the cause of escalating cpu usage on plasma-desktop "on my machine". I change "Application Launcher" from the "new Kickoff Menu Style" to the old standard "traditional" and immediately the cpu usage starts gradually dropping down around the 1.6-1.7% area.
I repeatedly read the cpu usage for plasma-desktop every five minutes and noted the time when I made changes and can correlate the usage changes directly to changing the "Application Launcher". Using the new Kickoff version used as high as 47%. :^(
Bugs: novell: 529358 kde: 204183
I'm not much of a gee-whiz widget guy, but one of the plasma-desktop widgets that I do use is the "System Monitor - CPU" graph. It is excellent for giving a small concise visual representation of your CPU load so you can catch at a glance any deviation in CPPU utilization. I find it really handy. After a day or so, you learn the cpu usage personalities of your box (idles 2-5%, normal browsing, word processing, email 5-15%, +10-20% with virtual box running as well, etc..) so if you look down and your pegged at 40% cpu usage, you know that something is misbehaving... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org