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