[arch-general] KDE and plasma-desktop CPU usage
Hello, I recently formatted an acer netbook with intel atom processor, 32 bit, 1.66GHz/1GB RAM, with arch. I installed kde on it, everything went as expected. However when I log in with a normal user, the KDE start-up completes but the splash screen is stuck. plasma-desktop process is eating 100% CPU. Killing and restarting the process does not help. I think the machine is dual core, /proc/cpuinfo shows two cores but might be hyper-threaded, am not sure. I can hit Alt-F2, get a krunner prompt and run applications like konsole but the desktop remain unavailable. I had just started dbus from rc.conf and created a user as follows # useradd -m -g users -G audio,video shridhar And log-in from kdm. Google is not much of help. Any suggestions before I report the bug upstream? -- Regards Shridhar
On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 19:40 +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
Hello,
I recently formatted an acer netbook with intel atom processor, 32 bit, 1.66GHz/1GB RAM, with arch. I installed kde on it, everything went as expected.
However when I log in with a normal user, the KDE start-up completes but the splash screen is stuck. plasma-desktop process is eating 100% CPU. Killing and restarting the process does not help.
I think the machine is dual core, /proc/cpuinfo shows two cores but might be hyper-threaded, am not sure.
I can hit Alt-F2, get a krunner prompt and run applications like konsole but the desktop remain unavailable.
I had just started dbus from rc.conf and created a user as follows
# useradd -m -g users -G audio,video shridhar
And log-in from kdm.
Google is not much of help. Any suggestions before I report the bug upstream?
"pacman -Rdd phonon-gstreamer pacman -S phonon-vlc" - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=133359 https://www.google.de/search?q=plasma%20desktop%20100%25% 20cpu&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&source=hp&channel=np
On Saturday 11 Aug 2012 5:59:58 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Google is not much of help. Any suggestions before I report the bug upstream? "pacman -Rdd phonon-gstreamer
On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 19:40 +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: pacman -S phonon-vlc" - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=133359
https://www.google.de/search?q=plasma%20desktop%20100%25% 20cpu&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a &source=hp&channel=np
Not required. I solved it shortly after the post. I was poking around and noticed that $HOME/.kde4/share/config did not have any plasma related file. So I copied following files from my desktop machine plasma-appletsrc plasma-desktop-appletsrc plasma-desktoprc plasmarc plasma-windowed-appletsrc And now I have a functioning KDE desktop in 300MB RAM :) I am going to reproduce this again and report a bug upstream. -- Regards Shridhar
2012/8/12 Shridhar Daithankar
On Saturday 11 Aug 2012 5:59:58 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Google is not much of help. Any suggestions before I report the bug upstream? "pacman -Rdd phonon-gstreamer
On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 19:40 +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: pacman -S phonon-vlc" - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=133359
https://www.google.de/search?q=plasma%20desktop%20100%25% 20cpu&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a &source=hp&channel=np
Not required. I solved it shortly after the post.
I was poking around and noticed that $HOME/.kde4/share/config did not have any plasma related file. So I copied following files from my desktop machine
plasma-appletsrc plasma-desktop-appletsrc plasma-desktoprc plasmarc plasma-windowed-appletsrc
And now I have a functioning KDE desktop in 300MB RAM :)
I am going to reproduce this again and report a bug upstream.
I have the same problem. In my case, two method can solve by pass it: 1. export LOCAL=c 2. remove the clock applet Leon
-- Regards Shridhar
try google : kde 4 eat cpu
it's really helpful
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Ashkan R
On Aug 11, 2012 6:36 PM, "Shridhar Daithankar"
Hello,
I recently formatted an acer netbook with intel atom processor, 32 bit, 1.66GHz/1GB RAM, with arch. I installed kde on it, everything went as expected.
However when I log in with a normal user, the KDE start-up completes but the splash screen is stuck. plasma-desktop process is eating 100% CPU. Killing and restarting the process does not help.
I think the machine is dual core, /proc/cpuinfo shows two cores but might be hyper-threaded, am not sure.
I can hit Alt-F2, get a krunner prompt and run applications like konsole but the desktop remain unavailable.
I had just started dbus from rc.conf and created a user as follows
# useradd -m -g users -G audio,video shridhar
And log-in from kdm.
Google is not much of help. Any suggestions before I report the bug upstream? -- Regards Shridhar
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ashkab rahmani
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Leon Feng
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Ralf Mardorf
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Shridhar Daithankar