[kde-freebsd] QFilesSystemWatcher instead of polling/FAM

[Rusty Nejdl]

On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:20:35 +0200, Jaap Boender <jaapb at kerguelen.org>
wrote:
> On Friday 09 July 2010 02:32:00 Jason E. Hale wrote:
>> > >> I've attached a patch that makes KDE use QFileSystemWatcher on FreeBSD
>> > >> which uses kqueue instead of stat. I've been using it for the past few
>> > >> days and it seems to work rather well.
> 
> I've been using the patch (the July 8 version), and it works well for
> the most
> part; the only problem is that plasma-desktop runs up to 100% CPU
> usage every
> once in a while (and becomes unresponsive), so that I've got to kill and 
> restart.
> 
> Looking at the logs, there doesn't seem to be any particular error message, 
> and it doesn't seem to be triggered by any specific action. If you
> need me to
> do anything specific for debugging purposes, or need more
> information, let me
> know.
> 

I can completely attest to this and mine was so bad I had to remove the
patch.  Plasma would die but everything else would work after that.  

Rusty Nejdl