Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-04 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
You did not look very close? See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220047 Yes, but no. Yes, it looks very close to dozens of KDE and downstrem/distro bugs! It's actually https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268038 And it was fixed (thanks, mikala!) by releasing of ntrack-014-3.mga2 !!!

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-04 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/7/4 Radu-Cristian FOTESCU beranger...@yahoo.ca: You did not look very close? See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220047 Yes, but no. Yes, it looks very close to dozens of KDE and downstrem/distro bugs! It's actually https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268038 And it was fixed

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-04 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
Not so fast! :( It's nice that you are happy. But since last updates my windows do not have any decorations (no border, no title bar, no chance to close/minimize/maximize), konsole window does not get focus at all, after reboot I see all decorations for a split

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-04 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
Not so fast! :( It's nice that you are happy. But since last updates my windows do not have any decorations (no border, no title bar, no chance to close/minimize/maximize), konsole window does not get focus at all, after reboot I see all decorations for a split second, then they vanish from the

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-04 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/7/4 Radu-Cristian FOTESCU beranger...@yahoo.ca: Not so fast! :( It's nice that you are happy. But since last updates my windows do not have any decorations (no border, no title bar, no chance to close/minimize/maximize), konsole window does not get

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-04 Thread John Balcaen
2011/7/4 Radu-Cristian FOTESCU beranger...@yahoo.ca: [...] Oh, I see that kdebase4-runtime-4.6.90-4.mga2 was also updated, but I believe this update doesn't change anything (adding ntrack as a Requires is IMHO useless as it was installed anyway, and removing it was and it's still

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-04 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/7/4 John Balcaen mik...@mageia.org: 2011/7/4 Radu-Cristian FOTESCU beranger...@yahoo.ca: [...] Oh, I see that kdebase4-runtime-4.6.90-4.mga2 was also updated, but I believe this update doesn't change anything (adding ntrack as a Requires is IMHO useless as it was installed anyway,

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-04 Thread John Balcaen
2011/7/4 Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com: 2011/7/4 John Balcaen mik...@mageia.org: [...] Hmm, I saw the new ntrack update coming in 3 days ago but it did not fix the cpu load issue here! Because ntrack was not installed in fact, kdebase4-runtime requires should fix it. I just created

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-04 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
It's not useless at all in fact. kdebase4-runtime was ony pulling by internal requires lib(64)ntrack0 lib(64)ntrack-qt4 using only  the «  built-in noop monitor (always online).», i did not notice only yesterday night that his package was installed locally (ntrack binary which provides

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-04 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
you can reproduce it by removing with --no-deps ntrack restart your kde session You mean one could have been running kded4 --no-deps ntrack and experience no CPU issues even w/o these updates?! Geez, how would a regular user know that --no-deps ntrack was a valid parameter? R-C

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-04 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/7/4 John Balcaen mik...@mageia.org: 2011/7/4 Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com: 2011/7/4 John Balcaen mik...@mageia.org: [...] Hmm, I saw the new ntrack update coming in 3 days ago but it did not fix the cpu load issue here! Because ntrack was not installed in fact,

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-04 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/7/4 Radu-Cristian FOTESCU beranger...@yahoo.ca: you can reproduce it by removing with --no-deps ntrack restart your kde session You mean one could have been running kded4 --no-deps ntrack and experience no CPU issues even w/o these updates?! Arrf! I misunderstood that part about

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-04 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
Then I moved the complete ~/.kde4 to a backup place and restarted with my normal user - back to the problem! :( I will create a new normal user and then compare ~/home entries. I'm currently experiencing a similar situation with XFCE: it's broken all of a sudden, no titlebars, no focus in any

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-04 Thread John Balcaen
2011/7/4 Radu-Cristian FOTESCU beranger...@yahoo.ca: you can reproduce it by removing with --no-deps ntrack restart your kde session You mean one could have been running kded4 --no-deps ntrack and experience no CPU issues even w/o these updates?! Geez, how would a regular user know that

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-04 Thread John Balcaen
2011/7/4 Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com: 2011/7/4 John Balcaen mik...@mageia.org: 2011/7/4 Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com: 2011/7/4 John Balcaen mik...@mageia.org: [...] Hmm, I saw the new ntrack update coming in 3 days ago but it did not fix the cpu load issue here!

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-04 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/7/4 John Balcaen mik...@mageia.org: 2011/7/4 Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com: 2011/7/4 John Balcaen mik...@mageia.org: 2011/7/4 Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com: 2011/7/4 John Balcaen mik...@mageia.org: [...] Hmm, I saw the new ntrack update coming in 3 days ago but it

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-04 Thread John Balcaen
2011/7/4 Radu-Cristian FOTESCU beranger...@yahoo.ca: But removing ntrack does not fix anything! (CPU 100%) Maybe removing libtrack0? I said that you'll be able to reproduce the 100% CPU usage by kded4 if the ntrack package is removed. -- Balcaen John Jabber-id:

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-04 Thread Thomas Spuhler
On Monday, July 04, 2011 05:10:24 am Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: It's not useless at all in fact. kdebase4-runtime was ony pulling by internal requires lib(64)ntrack0 lib(64)ntrack-qt4 using only the « built-in noop monitor (always online).», i did not notice only yesterday night that

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-04 Thread magnus
2011/7/4 Thomas Spuhler tho...@btspuhler.com On Monday, July 04, 2011 05:10:24 am Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote:Same here, after installing ntrack, logging out and loggin in tagain the kde4 cpu sage went to 0 = zero -- Thomas dito here 64-bit system well done :-) Magnus

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-03 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
It looks like the kded4 high-CPU is _not_ related to any of the following modules: bluedevil desktopnotifier device_automounter dnssdwatcher favicons freespacenotifier keyboard khotkeys kmixd ksvnd ktimezoned kwrited networkstatus obexftpdaemon powerdevil randrmonitor remotedirnotify

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-03 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zondag 03 juli 2011 21:40:53 schreef Radu-Cristian FOTESCU: [..] I started to lose my confidence in the IQ of the Linux users... really? the users? i wonder what those users IQ have to do with KDE4 taking too much CPU? perhaps most users don't even care? with their quad and hexa-cored

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-03 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
So you should disable all kded modules (from systemsettings), then log off (or even restart to be sure no process is left running) then log back on. If you still get high CPU from kded then ths problem is in kded itself, if not you can start loading the modules one by one (waiting long enough

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-03 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/7/3 Radu-Cristian FOTESCU beranger...@yahoo.ca: Is kded4 broken? How come there is no upstream report about kded4's high CPU usage? You did not look very close? See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220047 Funny thing: it already started in December 2009 with 4.3 ! -- wobo

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-02 Thread Balcaen John
On Saturday 02 July 2011 09:45:15 Wolfgang Bornath wrote: [...] Did that (after installing all updates up to 07:00 UTC), no signs of any I/O activity other than the usual. Still, one of the 4 cores is on full load. What strikes me here is: - on a CPU with 1 core, this is fully loaded - on a

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-02 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/7/2 Balcaen John mik...@mageia.org: On Saturday 02 July 2011 09:45:15 Wolfgang Bornath wrote: [...] Did that (after installing all updates up to 07:00 UTC), no signs of any I/O activity other than the usual. Still, one of the 4 cores is on full load. What strikes me here is:  - on a CPU

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-01 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 01 juli 2011 07:40:24 schreef Radu-Cristian FOTESCU: I was trying to investigate the kded4 high CPU load, and I started to investigate some upstream reports, even if not necessarily reported for 4.6.90. Some such reports were related to ntrack, e.g. http://bugs.kde.org/268038

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-01 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
afaik ntrack, if that is a problem, why don't you try and recompile KDE locally without ntrack? see if it improves stuff? But _why_ is ntrack a *required* dependency of KDE as long as: 1. other distros don't have it, neither as required by KDE, nor as an independent library; 2. It is

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-01 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
macro_log_feature(QNTRACK_FOUND QNtrack Network status tracking library http://launchpad.net/ntrack;; FALSE Provides data input for Solid network status) We're just trying to provide our KDE with as much as functionnality as it's possible. OK, OK, OK (Leo Getz / Joe Pesci voice).   Some

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-01 Thread John Balcaen
2011/7/1 Radu-Cristian FOTESCU beranger...@yahoo.ca: macro_log_feature(QNTRACK_FOUND QNtrack Network status tracking library http://launchpad.net/ntrack;; FALSE Provides data input for Solid network status) We're just trying to provide our KDE with as much as functionnality as it's possible.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-01 Thread Balcaen John
On Friday 01 July 2011 03:56:21 Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: macro_log_feature(QNTRACK_FOUND QNtrack Network status tracking library http://launchpad.net/ntrack;; FALSE Provides data input for Solid network status) We're just trying to provide our KDE with as much as functionnality as it's

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-01 Thread John Balcaen
2011/7/1 Radu-Cristian FOTESCU beranger...@yahoo.ca: [...] It's not the packager, it's the policy. Adding something just because upstream has provided an optional dependency... So then how are you going to test the functionality without testing it ? Even if we're not going to keep it why

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-01 Thread Christiaan Welvaart
On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, John Balcaen wrote: 2011/7/1 Radu-Cristian FOTESCU beranger...@yahoo.ca: [...] It's not the packager, it's the policy. Adding something just because upstream has provided an optional dependency... So then how are you going to test the functionality without testing it ?

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-01 Thread Balcaen John
On Friday 01 July 2011 05:26:19 Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: So then how are you going to test the functionality without testing it ? So what am I supposed to be testing? Apart that it doesn't kill my CPU, and that packaging etc. is correct, what is the _functionality_ to be tested? It's

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-01 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
ntrack is supposed to provide more information regarding connection/route change for desktop applications such so we'll probably see applications or developpers used it later. If we can provide by default an environnement so developers can use it (aka no need to recompile/add 'x' br)

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-01 Thread Rémi Verschelde
2011/7/1 Radu-Cristian FOTESCU beranger...@yahoo.ca: This is making me crazy. After upgrading to KDE 4.6.90 (cauldron, of course), the bloody m*f*er kded4 (the worse idea in KDE4) constantly takes 55-75% CPU. Of course, killing it is possible, but this affects the plasmoids. (E.g. it made me

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-01 Thread Christiaan Welvaart
On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: Now, it's tough to determine what exactly is making kded4 to eat the CPU. As I'm having a single core, I'm burned. At the same time, minor changes that are actually small improvements make me want to stay with 4.6.90, not to revert to 4.6.4

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-07-01 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
One way to figure that out is to attach gdb to it while it's running and then print a backtrace. If you do that several times, you may break in the code that's running a lot. But even if that works it is likely still not easy to figure out what's going on. Other ways to get

[Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-06-30 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
This is making me crazy. After upgrading to KDE 4.6.90 (cauldron, of course), the bloody m*f*er kded4 (the worse idea in KDE4) constantly takes 55-75% CPU. Of course, killing it is possible, but this affects the plasmoids. (E.g. it made me inadvertently filling an invalid bug report 1981, which

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-06-30 Thread Eugeni Dodonov
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 19:34, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU beranger...@yahoo.cawrote: This is making me crazy. After upgrading to KDE 4.6.90 (cauldron, of course), the bloody m*f*er kded4 (the worse idea in KDE4) constantly takes 55-75% CPU. Of course, killing it is possible, but this affects the

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-06-30 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
The solution which worked most of the time for such issues in kde 4.6.xx was: 1. open a terminal 2. run killall plasma-desktop 3. plasma-desktop the plasmoids and the desktop come back, and kded4 stops using that much CPU. Last time I looked what it was looking CPU at, it was caused by

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-06-30 Thread Balcaen John
On Thursday 30 June 2011 15:34:50 Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: This is making me crazy. After upgrading to KDE 4.6.90 (cauldron, of course), the bloody m*f*er kded4 (the worse idea in KDE4) constantly takes 55-75% CPU. Of course, killing it is possible, but this affects the plasmoids. (E.g.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-06-30 Thread Balcaen John
On Thursday 30 June 2011 16:10:46 Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: [...] Now, I know my KDE is somewhat b0rken, because akonadiserver can't start -- but I could live just fine this way in KDE 4.6.3-4.6.4, if not even better than with it. Well only kdepim is broken so it's not a big deal if you're

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-06-30 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-06-30 18:34, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU a écrit : This is making me crazy. After upgrading to KDE 4.6.90 (cauldron, of course), the bloody m*f*er kded4 (the worse idea in KDE4) constantly takes 55-75% CPU. Of course, killing it is possible, but this affects the plasmoids. (E.g. it made me

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-06-30 Thread Thomas Spuhler
On Thursday, June 30, 2011 05:23:58 pm Marc Paré wrote: Le 2011-06-30 18:34, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU a écrit : This is making me crazy. After upgrading to KDE 4.6.90 (cauldron, of course), the bloody m*f*er kded4 (the worse idea in KDE4) constantly takes 55-75% CPU. Of course, killing it

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-06-30 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
(This is making me crazy. Otherwise, I'll tell you some day about a bug/crash that was *accidentally* fixed by KDE 4.6.90.) Which one ? ;o) See https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2011-July/006180.html R-C

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-06-30 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
Could it be that it is indexing all of your files? NOPE. I never ever use indexing, no matter what the OS is. R-C

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-06-30 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
Well only kdepim is broken so it's not a big deal if you're not using it. (You should be able to use akregator). Yes, akregator works just fine. R-C

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-06-30 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
However here  killing this process does not seems to affect my plasmoids. I'm surprised to see you writing it. After killing kded4: 1. Klipper was not reacting. 2. The keyboard layout systray icon was dead. 3. Any changes in the way the clock is displayed (hour/date format) were not applied.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-06-30 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
I was trying to investigate the kded4 high CPU load, and I started to investigate some upstream reports, even if not necessarily reported for 4.6.90. Some such reports were related to ntrack, e.g. http://bugs.kde.org/268038 What the heck is ntrack and why do we need it? (The official

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

2011-06-30 Thread magnus
2011/7/1 Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com Mine was doing this and I tried to stop it (I don't really know how to do this), so in the end I let it go. It has now stopped. Could it be that it is indexing all of your files? I know that I have 600 gigs of data, and, if KDE4 was trying to index all of