[kde-freebsd] KDE 4.1 slowdowns

Andy Fawcett andy at athame.co.uk
Tue Sep 2 20:22:59 CEST 2008


On Tuesday 02 September 2008 21:15:30 Kris Moore wrote:
> Has anybody else noticed weird slowdowns in KDE 4.1?
>
> Several of our users are reporting it, and I've seen it here as well.
> It seems like sometimes KDE will just take a LONG time to start
> processes, or startf programs. "top" doesn't show anything using CPU,
> so I know the systems aren't busy.
>
> A good example would be when using a program which runs kdesu, 95% of
> the time it works perfectly, but occasionally i'll run kdesu, and it
> can take 45 seconds to a minute to even bring up the dialog, when it
> normally takes less than a second. (this is on a dual-core system,
> with nothing else running on it)

I noticed a huge memleak in kwin the other day, causing my system to 
slowdown and swap. Haven't managed to reproduce this yet though.

Andy

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