Widgets using ksysguardd make plasma-desktop raise to 100% CPU usage

[Martin Kho]

On Thursday 26 May 2011 17:56:34 Garry Williams wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Martin Kho <lists.kho at gmail.com> wrote:
> > My response  was a little too optimistic. :-(  Widgets using ksysguardd
> > are still making plasma-desktop mad. They slowly raising it's the cpu
> > usage. Enable/disable desktop effects doesn't make any difference.
> > 
> > Btw. I'm also running rawhide - upgraded from a fresh F15 install, same
> > kde version, different mesa/Xorg server) without any problems with those
> > widgets. The nouveau driver is nearly identical in fc16 and fc15.
> > (25.20110324git8378443.fc16 vs. 0.0.16-24.20110324git8378443.fc15).
> > 
> > Can it be an interaction issue between X and plasma-desktop? Or any other
> > ideas?
> 
> I can confirm the same exact behavior using the Intel drivers on a F14
> system.
> 
> Curiously, another system running F15 and using the default ATI driver
> does not have the problem.
> 
> I'm planning to install F15 on the problem machine over the weekend,
> so that may change things.

Hi,

I've reinstalled F15 KDE (LiveCD this time) and saw that after the 0-day 
update (kde 4.6.2 -> 4.6.3) the issue started. E.g. the Temperature monitor  
shows a continous switching between 0 Celsius and the current MB/CPU 
temperature.

Martin Kho