Bug 262415

Summary: filewatch consumes 100% cpu power at startup of kde.
Product: [Plasma] plasma4 Reporter: e3k <erik.dobak>
Component: widget-filewatcherAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: rshah0385
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description e3k 2011-01-07 15:10:01 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.4) 
OS:                Linux

i am watching the file /var/log/messages which is now 35MB big.

the startup takes after login ~25-35 sec. when the widget is removed its about 5 sec.

file watch is obviously reading the whole file instead of doing something like tail.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
watch a big file and restart your pc. after login press ctrl-alt-F1 and check what is consuming your CPU.

Actual Results:  
slow startup of kde.

Expected Results:  
quicker start.
Comment 1 Reza 2011-12-13 11:50:26 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 256187 ***