Fedora 12, 13 /KDE freezing Desktop

[JD]

On 10/03/2010 08:04 PM, stan wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:52:11 -0700
> JD<jd1008 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> By default: mlocate.cron
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> nodevs=$(<  /proc/filesystems awk '$1 == "nodev" { print $2 }')
>> renice +19 -p $$>/dev/null 2>&1
>> ionice -c2 -n7 -p $$>/dev/null 2>&1
>> /usr/bin/updatedb -f "$nodevs"
>>
>> So, it is already set to low priority, both for scheduling (with
>> renice) and for ionice (n 7 is lowest io priority).
>> All -c3 does is  run only when cpu is idle.
>>
> Actually c3 is when io is idle, not cpu.  That's somewhat important if
> your gui is trying to use the disk.  But you are right, mlocate is set
> to a low priority.  Maybe they changed them because someone else had the
> issue. ;-)
>
> It means it is unlikely to be Jim's issue.  Unless he's running strigi
> or something like that and it isn't behaving.
 From this list alone, I have seen so many complaints about kde,
that I do not even wish to venture to try it.
To be fair to kde, it is not clear if these problems are not caused
by user error or misconfiguration.