knotify4 loads 60% CPU

[Genes MailLists]

On 08/15/2011 10:12 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday, August 15, 2011 Genes MailLists wrote: 
>> On 08/15/2011 09:21 AM, Genes MailLists wrote:
>>>   I just noticed today this:
>>> PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>>> 14364 gene    20   0 1726m 263m  11m R 69.9  2.2 322:25.51 knotify4
>>>
>>>   (i) its taking up 263 M of mem (1.7 virtual) - really? for what?
>>>  
>>>  (ii) its holding the CPU at 65-75% ...
>>
>>    rebooting seems to have stopped the run on my CPU ..
> 
> The thread " higher load ave with kde 4.7" sounds related - and the conclusion 
> there was that the phonon backend might need to be changed.
> 
> Anne

   That indeed may be related now that you bring that up - I had run
virtualbox and got a sound error - which I ignored .. and shortly
thereafter a kde popup suggested my audio hardware had been 'removed'
... that may have triggered this.