higher load ave with kde 4.7

[Martin Kho]

On Sunday 14 August 2011 18:15:24 Sven Lankes wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:27:37AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> > Using kde 4.7 from fedora-kde47, I'm seeing increased load average.  I
> > turned off all indexing.
> > One thing noticable is a more-or-less 3% cpu from knotify4, even though
> > nothing is (apparantly) happening.
> 
> I'm seeing 3% for knotify too but on an F15 / KDE4.6 system. ~14 days
> uptime with 6+ hours cpu for the knotifiy process on a system where
> a gui is installed but never used.
> 
> According to strace on the knotify4-process it is trying to poll
> something that isn't there. "Resource temporarily unavailable". I have
> no idea how to debug this further. Hints appreciated.
> 
> I've never seen this on my laptop (which used to run 4.6 and has now
> been updated to 4.7). So it's not a general problem.

Hi,

Had, the same. In a report [1] at bugs.kde.org it was suggested that is has to 
do with sound. I disabled all sound notifications in kopete and my problem was 
over. May be this can help.

Martin Kho

[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156215