Re: kded & artsd

[Jim Kuzdrall]

On Thursday 22 May 2008 07:11, Brian Chabot wrote:
> I've been seeing odd behaviour...
>
> When idle (or mostly idle) for long periods, I get an occasional
> message popping up telling me that artsdaemon is being killed off
> because of CPU overload...

I had a similar problem and one of 2 things got rid of it:

1) I switched the Control Center-> Sound & Multimedia-> Sound System-> 
Hardware->Audio Device from Auto Detect to Open Sound System.

2) My SuSE 9.3 system had been installed via the "upgrade" option.  A 
clean new copy solved a lot of small problems (but incurred a lot of 
extra hours getting things reset.)

Someone with more savvy might give reasons why these changes worked.

My system:
   Linux 2.6.11.4-21.17-smp
   KDE 3.4.0 Level "b"
   SuSE 9.3

Jim Kuzdrall
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kded & artsd

[Brian Chabot]

I've been seeing odd behaviour...

When idle (or mostly idle) for long periods, I get an occasional message
popping up telling me that artsdaemon is being killed off because of CPU
overload.  Checking top, I see:

  PID USER  PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+  COMMAND
 4985 xxx   20   0 37984  13m  10m R 98.5  0.6   2626:45 kded

ps aux shows:
xxx   4985  7.4  0.6  37984 13460 ?RApr27 2627:21 kded
[kdeinit] --new-startup

kded hovers between 88 and 100% cpu while the rest of the system is
essentially idle.  Checking the docs, kded loads modules for KDE
services.  In order to make it less of a hog it is suggested you go into
the KDE Control Center, open the Services Manager and disable
unnecessary services.

Disabling ALL possible services there nets me... ~3%.

Literally, I have disabled all listed services, removed the pre-loading
of Konqueror, and turned off the KDE Sound daemon.

Now oddly, when the system is under load, kded seems to nice itself and
kind of disappears from the top 5 lines in top.

Anyone else seeing anything like this?

btw, it's KDE version 3.5.7-38.3mdv2008.0 on Mandriva Powerpack 2008.0.
uname -a shows:
Linux [FQDN here] 2.6.22.18-desktop-1mdv #1 SMP Mon Feb 11 13:53:50 EST
2008 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+ GNU/Linux

Any place else I should look?

Brian
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