KDevelop continuous activity?

[Sven Brauch]

On Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:25:04 CEST René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> The cursor animation is stopped when the window loses
> focus, so I'd hope that also stops CPU usage.

Probably.

> The real culprit appears to be the glib-based event processing

Unlikely. The attached screenshot certainly doesn't tell you that. Look at the 
flame graph instead.

> Anyway, other than checking for (or processing) events the process seems to
> spend a lot of time creating the DUChain cleanup thread (surprising, in a
> session that only has TCL and patch files open?).

What does "a lot of time" mean? Just starting the thread and notincing there's 
nothing to do is already "a lot of time" compared to an otherwise idle 
application.

> And in some libc function
> called by qt_format_text. 

If it's called qt_format_text, it's probably not from libc ;) Anyways, for 
that you need the call stack to make any sense of it.

Greetings,
Sven