On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 07:58 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > > --- On Sun, 10/12/08, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > From: Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu > > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > Date: Sunday, October 12, 2008, 7:29 AM > > Well, not quite, but I was alerted to this when my fan > > started whining > > and the cpu temperature rose about 5 degrees above normal. > > A look at > > 'top' confirmed that Ktorrent (downloading a single > > torrent) was using > > about 80% of my cpu. The X server was using most of the > > rest. > > > > This is F9 with KDE 4.1.1. > > > > I updated to KDE 4.1.2 (using "yum groupupdate > > KDE" from > > updates-testing) but it made no difference (actually, the > > whole machine > > started crawling until I disabled Desktop Effects, which > > hadn't seemed > > to matter before, but even after doing that Ktorrent was > > just as bad). > CPU level going to high levels, this is due to autohide bug: > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172549 > > Kevin has fixed this. Thanks Kevin :) > \begin{QUOTE} > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=65974 > > Try kdebase-workspace-4.1.2-5.fc10: I found the culprit, it's a patch which > fixes flickering during the autohide animations which has this unfortunate side > effect. I disabled that patch for now until it can get fixed properly. (I > didn't disable autohide entirely, it's still there, it just looks ugly. ;-) > Still disabled by default though, and as long as I have any influence on it, > it'll stay that way (even if upstream decides to enable it at some point), I > really hate autohide. ;-) ) > > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172549 > > Kevin Kofler > \end{QUOTE} OK, I tried this. The general sluggishness of KDE has improved greatly, but Ktorrent itself is still hogging the cpu. I've also tried running Ktorrent under Gnome, with exactly the same results. I now also have a less functional desktop, but I'd better post separately about that as it has nothing to do with Ktorrent. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
