[kde-freebsd] KDE Slows down X

[Kris Moore]

On 10/24/2012 15:12, Rusty Nejdl wrote:
>
>> Here's the output of "top" after it had been running for a while:
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>> last pid:  7337;  load averages:  0.63,  0.88,
>> 1.03                               up 6+23:06:15  12:04:32
>> 113 processes: 2 running, 111 sleeping
>> CPU:  9.6% user,  0.0% nice,  0.1% system,  0.0% interrupt, 90.3% idle
>> Mem: 1918M Active, 458M Inact, 655M Wired, 21M Cache, 402M Buf, 726M
>> Free
>> Swap: 2000M Total, 4636K Used, 1995M Free
>>
>> PID USERNAME   THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    C   TIME   WCPU
>> COMMAND
>> 2095 root            1     -21  r31  1684M  1590M CPU1   1 151.2H 38.96%
>> Xorg
>> 30770 root          1     20   0      14232K  1508K select 2   0:18
>> 0.98% moused
>> 2931 jamie2        4     24   0      890M     158M select   3  23:19
>> 0.00% kdeinit4
>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> After I logout / login again, it goes back down to a more expected
>> level:
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>> last pid:  9270;  load averages:  0.51,  0.72,
>> 0.92                               up 6+23:09:44  12:08:01
>> 131 processes: 1 running, 130 sleeping
>> CPU:  3.7% user,  0.0% nice,  1.7% system,  0.1% interrupt, 94.5% idle
>> Mem: 645M Active, 604M Inact, 645M Wired, 15M Cache, 402M Buf, 1868M
>> Free
>> Swap: 2000M Total, 660K Used, 1999M Free
>>
>> PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU
>> COMMAND
>> 7471 root          1  23    0   394M   299M select  3   0:05  2.98% Xorg
>> 9207 jamie2        2  40    0   408M 73716K select  2   0:01  0.98%
>> kdeinit4
>> 2141 root          2  20    0 51784K  4920K select  0   3:06  0.00%
>> upowerd
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Looking at the memory usage, do you think it could be a memory leak
>> somewhere?
>>
>> With 9.1 taking so long to get wrapped up, do you think we may get
>> 4.9.x  into ports before it hits? I'm hopeful it has already been fixed
>> upstream :)
>
> I wanted to check on this to see if you had found anything or if the
> newer version of KDE was coming anytime this year to the ports tree...
> I tried restarting kwin without any luck:
>
> last pid: 10315;  load averages:  0.58,  0.67,  0.58   up 30+21:11:27 
> 14:11:23
> 193 processes: 1 running, 191 sleeping, 1 zombie
> CPU:  3.3% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  1.6% interrupt, 95.1% idle
> Mem: 3912M Active, 4094M Inact, 1942M Wired, 487M Cache, 1236M Buf,
> 1431M Free
> Swap: 4096M Total, 1005M Used, 3091M Free, 24% Inuse
>
>   PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME  
> WCPU COMMAND
> 72745 rnejdl           1  52    0  2229M   892M select  6  25.3H
> 38.57% Xorg
> 65354 rnejdl          23  20    0   606M   380M uwait   1  25.8H 
> 3.47% firefox
> 83619 rnejdl           4  34    0   598M   151M uwait   1   0:14 
> 3.08% kwin
>
> As above, I very much am duplicating this issue with an Nvidia card.
>
> Rusty Nejdl
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Rusty,

One user has let us know that disabling "powerd" in rc.conf help with
some similar issues. Do you have that enabled on your box?

-- 
Kris Moore
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