* David C. Rankin [08-05-09 13:18]:

On Wednesday 05 August 2009 10:12:54 am Graham Anderson wrote:

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Since upgrading to KDE 4.3, the plasma-desktop process is constantly running with around 35% CPU utilisation across all CPU cores. This also seems to be affecting the kwin process which is consuming around 25% CPU, also across all cores.

Before I hit the KDE tracker I was wondering if anyone else who has upgrade is experiencing similar high CPU usage from plasma?

Yes,

See my "nepomukfromhell" thread. Check with:

I *believe* he was referring to plasma-desktop, not nepomuk :^/ -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Am Donnerstag, 6. August 2009 01:58:40 schrieb Graham Anderson:

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See my "nepomukfromhell" thread. Check with:

I *believe* he was referring to plasma-desktop, not nepomuk :^/

I narrowed it down to the system tray applet, toggling the option to show/hide icons stopped the CPU hogging. Go figure...

My plasma-desktop (updated from KDE 4.2) uses 1% or less. You might try with a different user and if that works better, stop palsma, move the configs (~/.kde4/share/config/plasma*) that make your plasma misbehave and restart plasma from scratch. Also make sure to test without compiz and check whether your Qt version fits your KDE version, both issues did cause trouble in the past. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Saturday 22 August 2009 03:40:20 pm Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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%. :^(

One other thing that kde4 got right with the classic menu is the ability to show menu titles in the menu. Application Launcher Settings (rt-click on start menu icon) -> Options -> show menu titles It breaks up the layout of the menu nicely: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/screenshots/kde4/classic-menu-titles.jpe... P.S. I forgot to provide a screenshot of the System Monitor - CPU widget in my last post, so here it is FWIW: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/screenshots/kde4/cpu-widget.jpeg -- 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

R * David C. Rankin [09-02-09 02:10]:

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...

while :; do date; ps aux | grep "plasma-desktop \[kdeinit\]";|\ sleep 5m;done >> some.file -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

* Patrick Shanahan [01-01-70 11:34]:

* Graham Anderson [08-05-09 11:16]:

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Since upgrading to KDE 4.3, the plasma-desktop process is constantly running with around 35% CPU utilisation across all CPU cores. This also seems to be affecting the kwin process which is consuming around 25% CPU, also across all cores.

Before I hit the KDE tracker I was wondering if anyone else who has upgrade is experiencing similar high CPU usage from plasma?

yes, I have been seeing it for about three weeks or so. It was bad when I first installed Factory on 28 June and about a week later was ok and now is bad again. When I see it bad, I do: killall plasma-desktop;wait;plasma-desktop

and the usage goes back to 4-5% on 1 cpu.

I have *not* reported this.

Got fed up today and made a bug report, 529358. I tried your suggestion of *not* displaying the icons and my usage *immediately* shot up from ~12% to ~28% :^(. I normally configure the task bar hidden. Will reverse that and reinstate showing icons. Re-Showing icons *immediately* returned cpu usage to <12% -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

* AndiSugandi™ [08-07-09 22:09]:

I'm afraid it is about vga adapter driver issue[0]. Are you using ATI card with fglrx driver?

[0] http://en.opensuse.org/KDE4#Performance_Issues

I'm experiencing it with an nvidia 7300gs -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org