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From: Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and high CPU usage
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:55:13
Message-Id: 8cd1ed20612300451l1cb5f43ay12a238c34dfd5d69@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Kopete and high CPU usage by Dale
1 I had a similar issue a while back, but it 'fixed itself', but Im unsure if
2 the bug was fixed or it was something I did. My analyisis pointed to it
3 doing a lot of work scanning/registering hotkeys or something.
4
5 On 12/31/06, Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net> wrote:
6 >
7 > Hi,
8 >
9 > Since Yahoo went out of portage, I switched to Kopete. Lately though, I
10 > have noticed that when I open a new chat with someone that it takes
11 > about 30 seconds for the window to open and that the CPU usage goes up
12 > big time. This is what top shows for Kopete:
13 >
14 > > 19343 dale 19 0 73192 41m 17m R 85.6 4.1 0:27.39 kopete
15 >
16 > Here is the USE flags:
17 >
18 > > root@smoker / # emerge -pv kopete
19 > >
20 > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
21 > >
22 > > Calculating dependencies... done!
23 > > [ebuild R ] kde-base/kopete-3.5.5-r2 USE="arts crypt groupwise
24 > > history jingle sametime ssl yahoo -addbookmarks -alias -autoreplace
25 > > -connectionstatus -contactnotes -debug -gadu -highlight -irc
26 > > -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -latex -netmeeting -nowlistening
27 > > -slp -sms -statistics -texteffect -translator -webpresence -winpopup
28 > > -xinerama -xscreensaver" 0 kB
29 > >
30 > > Total size of downloads: 0 kB
31 > > root@smoker / #
32 >
33 > I don't remember upgrading or anything but it just started doing this.
34 > It used to just pop right up and not use hardly any CPU usage.
35 >
36 > As for what this is running on, AMD 2500+ with 1GB of ram. My hard
37 > drive is pretty fast too. It's IDE but it gets 40 to 50 MBs/sec.
38 > Gkrellm doesn't show any drive activity when this happens though. I
39 > have reemerged Kopete with no change.
40 >
41 > Anybody else notice this? Anybody have a clue why it would be doing this?
42 >
43 > Thanks for any help or ideas.
44 >
45 > Dale
46 >
47 > :-) :-) :-) :-)
48 >
49 >
50 > --
51 > www.myspace.com/dalek1967
52 >
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55 >
56 >
57
58
59 --
60 /<ent Fredric
61 (aka theJackal)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and high CPU usage Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net>