[kde-linux] monitoring konqueror degrading performance

[James Richard Tyrer]

Pol wrote:
> James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 
>>> How to closely monitor konqueror activity, to spot the problem?
>> If you open KSysGuard, you will see that if you have multiple instances
>> of Konqueror open that if they are all running that sometimes they have
>> approximately equal "User%".  This is clearly not what you would want if
>> your were designing it.  You are only using one of them at a time.
> 
> konqueror instances use approximately the same percentage of the cpu.
>> What you would want is for windows to be given priorities based on
>> whether they are minimized, whether they were on the current desktop,
>> and which one had focus.  
> 
> How to do that?
> 
>> KWin could do this if it was running with root 
>> permissions.
> 
> How to check whether KWin is running with root permissions?
> 
> 
>> The tab issue might be able to be handled in Konqueror if each tab was
>> opened in a thread and they were assigned priorities based on which one
>> had focus.
>>
>> Another thing that would help would be to have two threads for a
>> process.  A small one to accept input and a large one to do the work.
>>
> 
> 
> 
> How to do that? 
> 
> 
> Thank you for your help
> 
Actually, I can't be much help.  Since I have the same problem, my reply 
was basically my blog on how the developers could fix this.

-- 
James Tyrer

Linux (mostly) From Scratch