[opensuse-kde] Delay when switching between applications on plasma-desktop
Hi everyone, I observe a somewhat strange behaviour of my plasma desktop: When I try to switch between applications (say Dolphin and Firefox) I have to sustain a delay of several seconds on my desktop pc. It is definitely not a hardware issue, because my machine is about six months old (Six-Core AMD FX-6200 with 3800MHz, 8GiB Memory, 12 GiB swap space on a 1.5TB SATA-disk), further the behaviour does not occur on my notebook, which has much less perfoming hardware. The behaviour does not occur from the beginning, but later on, I suspect after the screen-saver has been called for the first time. However the effect is reproducible. I used the KDE system monitor for diagnosis. I found out that when this occurs, one of the six CPUs is always at 100%. The responsible process is obviously plasma-desktop, which is always at 17% CPU. The effect occurs only when trying to switch applications using the mouse on the "Startleiste", ALT+TAB works like it should. I am willing to provide more detailed information, but I need some help from developers, how to do that. Finally some informations on my system: OpenSuSE 12.3, x86_64, fully updated from the communitiy repos. KDE 4.10 kdebase4-workspace-4.10.0-1.8.1.x86_64 (where plasma-desktop belongs to) Kernel: 3.7.10-1.1-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 28 15:06:29 UTC 2013 (82d3f21) x86_64. Any help is appreciated. Best regards Thomas Hejze -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
Søndag den 21. april 2013 16:38:13 skrev Thomas Hejze:
I observe a somewhat strange behaviour of my plasma desktop: When I try to switch between applications (say Dolphin and Firefox) I have to sustain a delay of several seconds on my desktop pc.
Sounds very strange. No idea about the specific issue. But I can provide some general troubleshooting hints that never get out of style. 1) Try if disabling desktop effects changes anything 2) Try if the problem also exists for a new/default user -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
Hi Martin, thanks for your reply. Am Sonntag, 21. April 2013, 21:42:12 schrieb Martin Schlander:
Søndag den 21. april 2013 16:38:13 skrev Thomas Hejze:
I observe a somewhat strange behaviour of my plasma desktop: When I try to switch between applications (say Dolphin and Firefox) I have to sustain a delay of several seconds on my desktop pc.
Sounds very strange. No idea about the specific issue. I think it is the "panel". I'll file a bug report, once I've figured out how to do.
1) Try if disabling desktop effects changes anything
I have to admit, desktop effects are on. However, this should not be the cause, because the system works fine for some time after login. And working inside an application is not a problem, either. If it were the desktop effects, performance would go down permanently (as it were on my notebook until I switched them of).
2) Try if the problem also exists for a new/default user
I tried this, an could not reproduce this effect, when bein logged in as a new user. I have hoped that I get some feedback like "Install the package soandso.debug" "Look into the logfile xyz.log". Well, it seems that I have to learn to write bug reports. Best regards Thomas Hejze -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
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Martin Schlander
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Thomas Hejze