knotify4 loads 60% CPU

[Neal Becker]

Genes MailLists wrote:

> 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.

I have also seen VB not behave well with kde/f15.