unlikely the reason of your issue, see http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.core/73464 and https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/103699/diff/2/
random longer hangs of a single process usually means it's waiting for syc io ops in the gui thread - possibly a dead lock on some file. (though i think opera just does some private ram -> disk mapping when you run oom) you could use strace, gdb or wireshark to chech what's happening before the freeze 2012/4/4, phanisvara das <listm...@phanisvara.com>: > since upgrading to KDE 4.8.2 (from openSUSE's KDE:/Distro:/Factory repo) > yesterday, i find that ktorrent frequently freezes, without hogging CPU or > RAM though. it simply stops responding for a few minutes but will come > 'back to life' eventually. > > starting ktorrent from the command line, i get this: > > ------------- > phani@phani:~> ktorrent > QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. > Application may misbehave. > QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. > Application may misbehave. > KGlobal::locale::Warning your global KLocale is being recreated with a > valid main component instead of a fake component, this usually means you > tried to call i18n related functions before your main component was > created. You should not do that since it most likely will not work > ------------- > > ktorrent starts anyway, but, as mentioned above, freezes from time to time. > > i've seen similar freezes, though shorter-lived, with opera, also after > the upgrade to 4.8.2 > > i don't find anything intersting in my logs, apart perhaps from this, > repeated several time in today's /var/log/messages: > > ------------- > Apr 4 12:46:12 phani dbus[1275]: [system] Activating service > name='org.kde.ksysguard.processlisthelper' (using servicehelper) > Apr 4 12:46:12 phani dbus-daemon[1275]: dbus[1275]: [system] Activating > service name='org.kde.ksysguard.processlisthelper' (using servicehelper) > Apr 4 12:46:13 phani org.kde.ksysguard.processlisthelper: > QDBusConnection: system D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. > Application may misbehave. > Apr 4 12:46:13 phani dbus[1275]: [system] Successfully activated service > 'org.kde.ksysguard.processlisthelper' > ------------- > > (haven't noticed any problem with ksysguard; there are no ktorrent related > entries.) > > was looking through bugs.kde.org, but couldn't find anything that looked > related. > > what should i do? wait for it to go away eventually, or do some further > research? if the latter, what, exactly? > > -- > phani. > >>> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe >>> << > >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<