[kde-freebsd] KDE Slows down X

[Alberto Villa]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.org> wrote:
> I've gotten a number of reports from our users, that when using KDE
> 4.8.4 and leaving the system up for more than 24-48 hours eventually it
> causes Xorg to use 100% CPU and the desktop slows down to a crawl. This
> is *only* occurring when KDE is the running desktop, Gnome, LXDE and
> others don't seem to have this issue. I've confirmed it here as well on
> an ATI system, so its doing it on both that and NVIDIA hardware. Logging
> out and back in again fixes the problem.

I'll try to test it in the weekend, but I hope this is fixed in 4.9
(lots of KWin fixes went in 4.9). Also, can you see if simply
restarting kwin restores the normal CPU usage?

$ kwin --replace &
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