[kde-freebsd] KDE Slows down X

[Kris Moore]

On 09/18/2012 09:36, Alberto Villa wrote:
> 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 &

I'll leave this system up for a day or two and give that a try.

Hopefully it is fixed in 4.9 though, this only started happening when we
moved to the 4.8.x series. Its 4.9 going to hit ports soon? Would love
to get it into 9.1, since it keeps getting delayed ;)

-- 
Kris Moore
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