[kde-freebsd] KDE Slows down X

[Andriy Gapon]

on 18/09/2012 17:54 Kris Moore said the following:
> On 09/18/2012 10:02, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 18/09/2012 16:20 Kris Moore said the following:
>>> KDE Team,
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Has anybody else run into this? Its easy to duplicate, just leave your
>>> desktop session up for a day or two. I tried disabling all the KDE
>>> Energy Savings in their control panel, but it still occurs. Can anybody
>>> else think of any knobs to tweak?
>>>
>> What HW?  Anything interesting in Xorg.log or system messages when the slowdown
>> happens?
>>
> 
> Its happening on all the systems we've tested at the iX office. Various
> nvidia cards, Intel i5 / i7 chipsets. On the laptop I tested here it is
> running an ATI radeon 5400 series, i5 Proc. When this occurs, I don't
> see any particular messages in dmesg or Xorg.0.log that would indicate
> the problem. We've tried it with 3D enabled and disabled to try and rule
> that out.
> 

I have two systems, one ATI and one Intel.  The Intel one uses i915kms.
Xorg is whatever is latest in the ports built with the following global knobs:
WITHOUT_NOUVEAU=yes
WITH_NEW_XORG=yes
WITH_KMS=yes
Both systems run KDE for weeks without any glitches.

Just a data point.

-- 
Andriy Gapon