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kdelibs package

  1. Bug #86168
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 86168

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Risto H. Kurppa (risto.kurppa) wrote :

Confirm this on Gutsy w. 3.5.9 (but I've had it on 3.5.8 as well, maybe even 3.5.7, not sure).

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-> KDED starts eating 100% of processor power, all KDE applications stop (akregator, kopete, konqueror..)

Killing the kded process solves this.

Looks like that kded likes to eat some resources:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdeutils/+bug/115739
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdelibs/+bug/194474
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdelibs/+bug/196005
(Maybe not duplicates but in all of them 100% of processor resources are used because of 'different reasons')

Funny enough, the KDE bugrep is from year 2003..