[kde-freebsd] KDE Slows down X

[Kris Moore]

On 09/18/2012 12:42, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> 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.
>

That helps me track this down. We use the same make options, so maybe
something else in how we run KDE is causing the issue. Anybody else
using GDM as the login manager?

-- 
Kris Moore
PC-BSD Software
iXsystems