Version: (using KDE 4.3.0) OS: Linux Installed from: Ubuntu Packages Problem: The kded4 process jumps to 50% CPU as soon as a KDE 4 component or application play sound. What triggers it? The login sound, the trash emptied sound, any other notification sound as well as tests of the output devices in the Multimedia System Settings all immediately send kded4 to 50% (presumably 100% on a single core CPU). With Amarok 2 running but not playing, kded4 hovers between 20-something% and 44%. With Amarok 2 playing, it stays at around 45%. After quitting Amarok 2, it goes to the usual 50%. What doesn't trigger it? Anything non-KDE-4, as far as I can tell. Amarok 1.4, Audacity, Kaffeine 0.87, jackd, Flash plugin, Freedroid game... no problems there. Sound hardware: VIA 8237 with ALC850 (on-board sound). Xine or GStreamer Backend doesn't make a difference as far as I can tell.
Confirmed here. Oddly just started happening after Qt 4.6.0 and KDE 4.3.4 updates on Gentoo. I read this bug and then disabled notification sounds and kded4 no longer eats a CPU core. Thanks for the find.
Confirming on Gentoo with Qt 4.6.0 and KDE 4.3.4. kded4 was using 100% cpu until I disabled sound notifications.
Confirming on openSUSE with Qt 4.6.0 from KDE:KDE4:UNSTABLE and stock KDE 4.3.1
After switching to Qt 4.6.0 from KDE:KDE4:Factory (the official Qt release) I cannot reproduce this behaviour anymore. Reminds me of 216857, since I also experienced the symptomes described there.
I might have the same problem. kded4 takes the whole core on kubuntu 9.04 (kde 4.2.4, qt 4.5.0). How can check for sure that this is also my issue ?
SVN commit 1075552 by dfaure: Fix 100% CPU usage due to a startTimer(0) that was never stopped; this could happen if the timer was started twice, so m_timerId was overwritten, and the first timer ID never recognized. It's much much simpler to use deleteLater: no risk of forgetting the deletion and no risk of timers running forever. It means using QWeakPointer to notice when it got deleted, though. CCMAIL: kretz@kde.org I'm not sure which of the "kded uses 100% cpu" bugs this really fixes; maybe all, or maybe just the one that talks about phonon specifically... Fixed for: 4.4 BUG: 202744 CCBUG: 178228 CCBUG: 184576 CCBUG: 217364 CCBUG: 220047 M +16 -34 hardwaredatabase.cpp WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1075552
SVN commit 1078178 by dfaure: Backport r1075552 (Fix kded using 100% CPU) using QPointer instead of QWeakPointer (thanks to Rex Dieter for the converted patch) Fixed for: 4.3.5 CCBUG: 202744 M +17 -34 hardwaredatabase.cpp WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1078178
*** Bug 203048 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***