[Mageia-dev] Anybody having high CPU by kded4 after upgrading to 4.6.90?

Radu-Cristian FOTESCU beranger5ca at yahoo.ca
Fri Jul 1 19:37:55 CEST 2011



> One way to figure that out is to attach gdb to it while it's running and 
> then print a backtrace. If you do that several times, you may break in the code 
> that's running a lot. But even if that works it is likely still not easy to 
> figure out what's going on.
> 
> Other ways to get information would be to strace (or ltrace) this daemon to get 
> an idea what it's trying to do. But CPU usage by the application itself 
> cannot be seen this way.
> 
> An easier way to start is to run iotop and check if kded4 is doing any I/O 
> related to this cpu usage.

Well, thanks for the ideas. As long as it takes at least 55% of the CPU anyway, this is going to be quite cumbersome, and I have some other (productive) tasks to do, so I don't expect to investigate this before Sunday night.

R-C


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