2 kdeinit4 processes eating 14% cpu

[Maledictus]

Hi all,

I use kdm from kde 4.3.1. Besides that I just run flubox. Any idea why there are two kdeinit4 processes eating 14% cpu time? One is run by user root the other by me.

I can kill them both and nothing bad seems to happen. But which programs start these resource hogs?

[plamaiziere]

I use kdm from kde 4.3.1. Besides that I just run flubox. Any idea why there are two kdeinit4 processes eating 14% cpu time? One is run by user root the other by me.


It's a known problem with kde4. Edit or create the file kdedrc in your home with something like this :

baby-jane:~$ cat .kde4/share/config/kdedrc
[$Version]
update_info=kded.upd:kde3.0

[DirWatch]
PollInterval=60000

[Maledictus]

Thanks. Works.

[Toli]

The issue also exists in PcBSD 8.1 RC1.
The fix presented here fortunately works :)
Cheers!

[Erratus]

Still true for KDE 4.5.1 .
I considered dropping KDE4 for this problem.
Thanks for this hack!
Maybe someone should hint this hack to KDE-developers, as this is not a small waste of power consumption on all KDE running machines.