[kde-freebsd] Re: 4.5.2 behaviour

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

At Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:15:36 -0400,
Jason E. Hale wrote:
> 
> On Sunday, October 17, 2010 22:18:39 Dwayne MacKinnon wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Noticed two odd things with 4.5.2
> > 
> > 1) Dolphin freezes up on me. A lot. After a minute or so it unfreezes.
> > 
> I have noticed this as well.  Dolphin will freeze almost any time I try to 
> open a file by double-clicking on it.  Then it will take a few seconds to 
> actually open the file.  It also will crash within a matter of minutes of even 
> slight use.  I think it has something to do with the file polling, but I 
> haven't had time to investigate.  It wasn't very stable in KDE 4.5.1
> either.

What does the backtrace say when it crashes?

> > 2) kwin goes nuts when I play video of any kind. It basically takes over
> > one of my CPU cores completely.
> > 
> I haven't seen this, but the Xorg process will eat up CPU if the kmix window 
> is open.  It is fine if kmix is just in the system tray.  I haven't been able 
> to figure that one out, but that started with KDE 4.5.1.
> 
> KDE 4.5.2 / FreeBSD 8.1 i386 / nvidia driver

IIRC, someone else has sent a mail to this list about kmix and Xorg
too. It'd be nice to do some profiling or search bugs.kde.org about
the issue.