Dolphin cause X high CPU usage

Eli Wapniarski eli at orbsky.homelinux.org
Sun Apr 11 09:12:20 UTC 2010


Quoting Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>:

> On Sunday 11 April 2010 04:14:43 Armelius Cameron wrote:
>> On Saturday 10 April 2010 10:01:19 pm Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>> > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Armelius Cameron wrote:
>> > > Hello,
>> > > I have noticed that Dolphin can cause X process to use a lot of CPU on
>> > > both my laptop and desktop running F12 with latest updates. <snip>
>> > >
>> > > Is anyone else seeing this ?
>> >
>> > I confirm this with proprietary nvidia driver on two x86_64 machines.
>> > Dolphin is very slow, sometimes unresponsive, especially when browsing
>> > through directories containing large (200+) number of  files.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> > I think this is related to
>> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216932
>>
>> I don't know how relevant is that bug, actually. I don't have Strigi
>> running, and I don't have problem accessing directory or viewing
>> information of large file. But yes, Dolphin is often sluggish for me, even
>> on directory with small number of files.
>>
>> In general, I feel that recently KDE is more sluggish than earlier version
>> F12. Of course this is all purely anecdotal / subjective. I can't pinpoint
>> any version number, or even the cause of this. Dolphin is a specific
>> instance that I saw. But just using it like before, now I keep seeing X
>> uses a lot of CPU most of the time on a dual core machine with decent
>> graphic card.
>>
> With 4.4.2 on F12, ATi free driver, dolphin is quick and responsive.  I'm not
> seeing any problem at all.
>
> Anne
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Me too... No problems with Nvidia Proprietary Drivers. Everything is  
quick and responsive on 4.4.2

Eli



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