Bug 49485 - galeon/klipper performance problem
Summary: galeon/klipper performance problem
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: klipper
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: RedHat Enterprise Linux Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Carsten Pfeiffer
URL:
Keywords:
: 54039 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2002-10-21 10:31 UTC by Ivo S
Modified: 2004-05-11 15:48 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Ivo S 2002-10-21 10:31:07 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.0.3)
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
OS:          Linux

Somehow when I handtype an URL to galeon under KDE it will cause KDE panel
to become sluggish (panel and panel operations will be unresponsive and slow). 

To detect this problem:
1) enable automatic hide of panel and set delay to 0 seconds;
2) verify that when moving mouse cursor to and from KDE panel it will hide
and show itself instantly;
3) launch galeon;
4) verify that when moving mouse cursor to and from KDE panel it will hide
and show itself instantly;
5) type an URL (example galeon.sourceforge.net) and press [enter];
6) verify that when moving mouse cursor to and from KDE panel it does not
hide and show itself instantly;

You should experience total slowdown of panel and all operations there
should be terribly slow.
Termination of this instance of galeon is the cure.


Currently I run RedHat 8.0 but this happened even with RedHat 8.0 betas:

[IS@sarmax IS]$ rpm -qa|grep galeon
galeon-1.2.6-0.8.0
rpm -qa|grep kde
[IS@sarmax IS]$ rpm -qa|grep kde
kdepasswd-3.0.3-3
kdebase-3.0.3-13
kdenetwork-devel-3.0.3-3
kde-i18n-Chinese-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-German-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-Norwegian-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-Slovenian-3.0.3-1
kdebindings-devel-3.0.3-1
kdepim-pilot-3.0.3-3
kdemultimedia-devel-3.0.3-4
kdeartwork-locolor-3.0.3-3
kdeaddons-knewsticker-3.0.3-1
kdesdk-kmtrace-3.0.3-2
kde-i18n-Danish-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-Hungarian-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-Portuguese-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-Turkish-3.0.3-1
kdebindings-kdec-3.0.3-1
kdeartwork-kworldclock-3.0.3-3
kdegames-3.0.3-3
kdemultimedia-libs-3.0.3-4
kdessh-3.0.3-3
kdeaddons-kicker-3.0.3-1
kdeartwork-screensavers-3.0.3-3
kdesdk-kapptemplate-3.0.3-2
kdesdk-kompare-3.0.3-2
kde-i18n-British-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-Czech-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-Finnish-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-Hebrew-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-Japanese-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-Polish-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-Serbian-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-Swedish-3.0.3-1
kdeadmin-3.0.3-3
kdebindings-qtc-3.0.3-1
kdegames-devel-3.0.3-3
kdetoys-3.0.3-1
unixODBC-kde-2.2.2-3
lockdev-1.0.0-20
kdelibs-3.0.3-8
kdemultimedia-kfile-3.0.3-4
kdepim-3.0.3-3
kdeartwork-3.0.3-3
kdebase-devel-3.0.3-13
kdesdk-kbabel-3.0.3-2
kdesdk-kspy-3.0.3-2
kdelibs-devel-3.0.3-8
kde-i18n-Brazil-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-Chinese-Big5-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-Estonian-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-Greek-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-Italian-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-Norwegian-Nynorsk-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-Russian-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-Spanish-3.0.3-1
kdeaddons-kate-3.0.3-1
kdebindings-kmozilla-3.0.3-1
kdebindings-kdejava-3.0.3-1
kdesdk-gimp-3.0.3-2
licq-kde-1.2.0a-2
wordtrans-kde-1.1pre9-10
lockdev-devel-1.0.0-20
kdemultimedia-arts-3.0.3-4
kdeaddons-konqueror-3.0.3-1
kdesdk-kbugbuster-3.0.3-2
kde-i18n-Afrikaans-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-Dutch-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-Icelandic-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-Romanian-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-Ukrainian-3.0.3-1
kdebindings-qtjava-3.0.3-1
kde2-compat-2.2.2-7
kdenetwork-libs-3.0.3-3
kdeutils-laptop-3.0.3-3
switchdesk-kde-3.9.8-9
kdepim-devel-3.0.3-3
kdevelop-2.1.3-3
kde-i18n-Catalan-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-French-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-Korean-3.0.3-1
kde-i18n-Slovak-3.0.3-1
kdebindings-3.0.3-1
kdepim-cellphone-3.0.3-3
kdeaddons-noatun-3.0.3-1
[IS@sarmax IS]$ rpm -qa|grep mozilla
mozilla-dom-inspector-1.0.1-26
mozilla-1.0.1-26
mozilla-nss-1.0.1-26
mozilla-nss-devel-1.0.1-26
mozilla-chat-1.0.1-26
mozilla-mail-1.0.1-26
mozilla-psm-1.0.1-26
kdebindings-kmozilla-3.0.3-1
mozilla-devel-1.0.1-26
mozilla-nspr-1.0.1-26
mozilla-nspr-devel-1.0.1-26
mozilla-js-debugger-1.0.1-26
[IS@sarmax IS]$


http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93973
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75782
Comment 1 Aaron J. Seigo 2002-10-22 08:38:49 UTC
when entering a URL into galeon what does top (or any CPU monitoring tool, e.g. 
gkrellm, ksim, ksysmonitor, ksysguard, etc..) show? does the cpu usage jump to 
100%? do any other applications slow down, or just the panel? if just the 
panel, is the entry for galeon in the taskbar flickering a lot or do you notice 
any other odd behaviour? 
Comment 2 Ivo S 2002-10-22 11:09:24 UTC
Depending of an site Galeon will jump to 25% of CPU usage but during the typing
of an URL there is not much of it.

During the typing:
http://www.vendomar.ee/~ivo/handtype_load.png
After an [Enter]:
http://www.vendomar.ee/~ivo/handtype_load_after_enter.png

It is hard to tell if the Galeon entry in the taskbar is flickering as the
taskbar is hidden during the typing of the URL, but after I disabled the hide,
there was no flickering and the panel operations (clicking on a RedHat will not
bring menu up for about 2 seconds, same goes to icon shortcuts on taskbar, icon
hightlighting does not work, ...) do indicate there is a problem even without
the automatic hide.
Comment 3 Ivo S 2002-11-01 21:50:13 UTC
So noone can confirm it or what is the deal?

I have this issue with every RedHat 8.0 I have ever installed or used, so this
must be a common problem.
Comment 4 Aaron J. Seigo 2002-11-06 00:03:53 UTC
hm.. do you have klipper enabled? and if so, do you have clipboard syncronization turned 
on in it? if so, this may be the problem and try turning off clipboard sync to see if it 
improves the situation. 
 
if not, i would guess that this is a Red Hat 8 issue rather than a KDE issue. Red Hat has 
made some unique alterations to the desktop software bundled with Red Hat 8 and you 
may be better served by entering a bug into their bug system rather than here. 
 
 
Comment 5 Ivo S 2002-11-06 07:49:07 UTC
How do I check if I have klipper enabled? And how to enable/disable it?

At least no task with klipper name is running:
[root@sarmax root]# ps -aux|grep klipper
root      1289  0.0  0.0  3332  376 pts/1    R    08:47   0:00 grep klipper
[root@sarmax root]#
Comment 6 Ivo S 2003-01-23 08:02:18 UTC
Ok, I found klipper and I am certain it is the source of the problem as when to remove it, I can use Galeon again. 
Comment 7 Nicholas Lee 2003-02-28 08:07:24 UTC
Subject: Re:  panel stalls randomly.  Quiting galeoning  restores the panel to normal operation

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 07:44:42PM +1300, Nicholas Lee wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 05:04:24AM -0000, John Firebaugh wrote:
> > ------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
> > You reported the bug, or are watching the reporter.
> >      
> > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54039     
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ------- Additional Comments From jfirebaugh@kde.org  2003-02-28 06:04 -------
> > Does this seem related to bug #49485?
> 
> Yes. At least a similar problem occurs. I've verified #49485 for my
> installation.
> 
> Can be fixed by the same method. Reduce to one tab/window. Create a new
> window. Detach tab from intial window and move to new window. Delete
> blank tab in new window.  Panel now resets itself.
> 
> Selection/Sync for klipper is not turned on.

Comment 8 Nathan G. Grennan 2003-03-03 01:56:59 UTC
I have experienced this same bug with RedHat 8.1 beta3(phoebe3). It is very
annoying.
Comment 9 John Firebaugh 2003-04-07 01:31:08 UTC
*** Bug 54039 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Nicholas Lee 2004-05-11 09:40:14 UTC
I don't seem to have this problem anymore even with both galeon and klipper operating.

I've tried to duplicate the above process and klipper and the panel seem to function as they should.

I'm currently running:-
nic@thunder:~$ dpkg --list kdebase | grep ii
ii  kdebase        3.2.1-1        KDE Base metapackage
nic@thunder:~$ dpkg --list klipper | grep ii
ii  klipper        3.2.1-1        KDE Clipboard
Comment 11 Matt Rogers 2004-05-11 15:48:49 UTC
On Tuesday 11 May 2004 02:40 am, Nicholas Lee wrote:
> ------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
> You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
>
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49485
>
>
>
>
> ------- Additional Comments From nic-kde plumtree co nz  2004-05-11 09:40
> ------- I don't seem to have this problem anymore even with both galeon and
> klipper operating.
>
> I've tried to duplicate the above process and klipper and the panel seem to
> function as they should.
>
> I'm currently running:-
> nic thunder:~$ dpkg --list kdebase | grep ii
> ii  kdebase        3.2.1-1        KDE Base metapackage
> nic thunder:~$ dpkg --list klipper | grep ii
> ii  klipper        3.2.1-1        KDE Clipboard