[arch-general] KDE and plasma-desktop CPU usage

[ashkab rahmani]

try google : kde 4 eat cpu
it's really helpful

———
Ashkan R
On Aug 11, 2012 6:36 PM, "Shridhar Daithankar" <ghodechhap at ghodechhap.net>
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?
> --
> Regards
>  Shridhar
>