higher load ave with kde 4.7

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Martin Kho <lists.kho at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Looking over that bug, the problem seems to be related to
phonon-backend-gstreamer.  I use phonon-backend-vlc and don't have
this problem at all.

So, if you still want notification sounds you might give that a try.

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

-T.C.