Bug 670102

Summary:	plasma-desktop starts eating CPU and crashes frequently
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Rik Theys <rik.theys>
Component:	kdebase-workspace	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	14	CC:	fedora, jreznik, kevin, ltinkl, rdieter, rnovacek, ry, smparrish, than
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Description Rik Theys 2011-01-17 08:14:49 UTC

Description of problem:

After a few minutes, plasma desktop starts using a complete core. At first the system tray remains functional but after a while, it no longer responds to clicks and the clock will no longer update. Sometimes after a few minutes, it will respond again and process all clicks made.

The plasma-desktop process crashes after a while and automatically respawns.

When plasma desktop is using the cpu, an strace shows constant reading of /etc/localtime and /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels (my timezone).

I've already removed all widgets from my desktop and the system tray only has the basic widgets. This doesn't seem to help.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

I've had this problem ever since the upgrade to the 4.5 series. 4.4 and before never had this problem.


How reproducible:

Always on my account. Other users don't seem to be able to reproduce this, with the same widgets added.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log in
2. run top to see the plasma-destop process start to use a lot of cpu time.
3.
  
Actual results:

plasma-desktop uses a lot of cpu and crashes frequently (about 8 times a day)

Expected results:

low plasma-desktop cpu usage and no crashes.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Rik Theys 2011-01-17 10:04:39 UTC

The CPU usage seems to drop when I remove the digital clock from my panel. The only change I made to the digital clock settings is set the calendar to Belgium Dutch to have the local holidays marked on the calendar.

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