[kde-freebsd] KDE3 && dbus launch

[Matthias Apitz]

Hello,

I encounter from time to time that the proc 'dbus-daemon' in the above
mentioned env (together with Evolution, Firefox, Skype and Pidgin)
consumes a lot of CPU time, for example:


last pid:  2722;  load averages:  0.04,  0.09,  0.08 up 0+04:48:42  13:16:40
123 processes: 1 running, 122 sleeping
CPU:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  1.1% system,  0.0% interrupt, 98.9% idle
Mem: 469M Active, 452M Inact, 139M Wired, 26M Cache, 112M Buf, 1909M Free
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free

  PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME    CPU COMMAND
 1251 guru          1  44    0 78424K 73296K select  0   9:59  0.00% Xorg
 1564 guru          6  44    0   228M   193M ucond   0   7:44  0.00% firefox-bin
 1384 guru          1  45    0  3476K  2024K select  1   4:48  0.00% dbus-daemon
 1408 guru          4  44    0   112M 73316K select  1   3:39  0.00% evolution
 1330 guru          1  44    0 34724K 28932K select  0   1:33  0.00% kdeinit
 1343 guru          1  44    0 29564K 23968K select  1   0:54  0.00% kdeinit

I understand (or better: see) that dbus is launched by the start of
KDE3, and is running as:

ps axl | fgrep dbus
 1001  1387     1   0  44  0  4780  2328 select I     ??    0:00,00 dbus-launch --autolaunch 2bf0b1653b041a458f0f39554a045591 --binary-syntax --close-stderr
 1001  1392     1   0  44  0  3476  2040 select Ss    ??    0:56,34 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session

What would be the best way to get more details about what it is doing,
i.e. enable some kind of logging of its avtivities?

Thanks

	matthias

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