Bug 271858

Summary:	Choqok consumes massive CPU and bogs system down during msg updates
Product:	[Unmaintained] choqok	Reporter:	Praedor Tempus <praedor>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Mehrdad Momeny <mehrdad.momeny>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	aaronw, leh, praedor, scarpino
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	1.0
Target Milestone:	1.6
Platform:	Mandriva RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Praedor Tempus 2011-04-27 18:06:22 UTC

Version:           1.0 (using KDE 4.4.5) 
OS:                Linux

Updating timelines on Choqok regularly consumes 100% of CPU, preventing ability to work with other apps for this period.  In some cases this has led to a complete lockup of entire KDE system, with unresponsive keyboard inputs, forcing a hard reboot or hard shutdown.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
Update timelines.  

Actual Results:  
Had to turn off automatic timeline updates because renders system practically unusable with repeat CPU consumption and loss of ability to input from keyboard or mouse until update completes (and sometimes never as system locks up entirely and doesn't recover over long period of time).

Expected Results:  
Such a simple app doing a simple thing should not consume 100% of CPU and never cause the entire system to go unresponsive, prevent keyboard/mouse inputs.  

OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.36.2-desktop-2mnb
Compiler: gcc

Comment 1 Mehrdad Momeny 2011-05-01 07:42:59 UTC

A workaround to fix this temporarily is lowering number of posts to show in mainwindow (in General section of Configurations)

Comment 2 Mehrdad Momeny 2012-05-07 02:10:16 UTC

*** Bug 299529 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Mehrdad Momeny 2012-11-04 03:51:13 UTC

*** Bug 308724 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Andrea Scarpino 2014-12-17 13:48:43 UTC

Git commit 5096b5e9b7b223172d81b4d01ed04f3035c4a45f by Andrea Scarpino, on behalf of Eugene Shalygin.
Committed on 17/12/2014 at 13:47.
Pushed by scarpino into branch 'master'.

Fix memleaks in images fetching

REVIEW: 121576
Related: bug 341927
FIXED-IN: 1.5

M  +3    -3    helperlibs/twitterapihelper/twitterapiwhoiswidget.cpp
M  +7    -9    libchoqok/mediamanager.cpp
M  +6    -6    libchoqok/mediamanager.h
M  +12   -13   libchoqok/ui/postwidget.cpp
M  +3    -3    plugins/betternotify/notification.cpp

http://commits.kde.org/choqok/5096b5e9b7b223172d81b4d01ed04f3035c4a45f

Comment 5 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 01:26:44 UTC

Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.

Comment 6 Christoph Cullmann 2025-06-09 20:08:13 UTC

Choqok is unfortunately no longer maintained.

If a new maintainer wants to step up and take care, the project is archived here:

https://invent.kde.org/network/choqok

You can just clone it in your private namespace on invent.kde.org and if you have started to work on it and fixed/implemented something get it reviewed and the project unarchived.

Sorry for the inconveniences.