Re: Odd pauses with KDE 3
On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Craig Dickson wrote:
> On my only sid KDE 3 machine, I notice that the entire system seems to
> pause for a few seconds at a time. Launching a new Konqueror process (I
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> Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this, or suggestions for
> things I should check? This problem does not occur under Gnome 2 or in
> other non-KDE environments, even on the same machine.
>
> TIA for any help that anyone can offer.
KDE3 freezes when kbuildsycoca runs...
It may be tough to see on a modern machine but on this old 66MHz box
"top" (run from a text vt) clearly shows kbuildsycoca eating up all
the CPU cycles it can get when KDE is unresponsive.
You may be able to see it if you start top doing a fast update, then
make changes to a directory containing *.desktop files.
- Bruce
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