Version: (using KDE 4.0.83) Installed from: Unlisted Binary Package This is the top of my top [ :-) ]: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 28289 vsego 20 0 106m 17m 10m R 55.7 3.5 848:59.33 plasma 27949 root 20 0 240m 43m 3076 S 34.8 8.7 499:04.63 Xorg ... This happens whenever I check the load and my load averages are: 2.68, 2.61, 2.54. Currently, I have the following programs running: gedit, SeaMonkey, konsole and OpenOffice, but none of them show any load. Few thing running in tray, but also do nothing at the moment. I can provide more info, but need instructions on how to do so.
Do you by any chance use the ati binary drivers?
I do have an old ATI Rage card... with drivers from Livna (I THINK; not sure, since some time has passed since I've installed these). How do I check? My xorg.conf says: Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "r128" EndSection
I saw this on a notebook whcih has a radeon 9700. I thought it was due to the driver, because it does not happen when desktop-effects are disabled. Do you have desktop-effects enabled?
Nope, desktop effects are off. My machine is too slow to have such stuff on all the time (P4, 1.7GHz, 512MB RAM).
Hmmm... the load has just dropped... and I did nothing (started and shut down Pidgin, but everything else remained the same): PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 27949 root 20 0 245m 51m 3388 R 3.0 10.2 517:25.33 Xorg 28954 vsego 20 0 109m 6500 6032 R 2.0 1.3 45:19.44 nspluginviewer 28289 vsego 20 0 106m 19m 11m S 1.3 3.8 878:44.94 plasma Loads have dropped to 0.29, 1.33, 2.11. Is there something to check when this happens again?
Hi Vedran, Could you please list all the plasmoid you have on the panel and say us which revision of kde do you use Cheers
What exactly are plasmoids? If widgets, icons,... then: KDE menu, few icons, pager with 6 desktops (only 2 in use), device notifier, digital clock, lock/logout widget, task manager and system tray (in which I have Akregator, KSensors (0.7.3, using KDE 3.5.0-15.fc9), keyboard layout switcher, KMix and Klipper); no widgets on the desktop itself, only few icons. KDE revision: 4.00.84 (KDE 4.1 >= 20080625); installed from apt.kde.org via yum.
Please remove the lock/logout widget ans say us if the cpu decrease. We have a problem with this plasmoid on older revision that is fixed now. If this fix the problem can you please close the bug report ? Tanks !
Bravo! It was Lock/Logout. The load rose again, so I removed Lock/Logout and the load dropped. I added it and removed it few more times and the load went up and down accordingly. Thank you!