kdeinit slowly chokes machine
Hello list,
I have a problem with my kdeinit. When I start using my computer, everything
is fine, but after a while kdeinit starts to choke the machine.
Every now and then, it makes the system soar to near 100% system cpu use. As
times goes by, the interval shortens, and it feels like it lasts longer, but
that may be subjective.
Anyway, what's odd (I think) is that a ctrl-backspace (kill the X server,
reload KDE) doesn't do any good, the only thing that reliably solves it is a
reboot.
Also, note that it's the kernel that locks up (it's not user cpu). If I use
tethereal to capture packets, all packets will be dropped during the kdeinit
freeze (foo packets dropped by kernel).
I have created a kdedev user environment and have been compiling QT as
described in the KDE quality team documents. It shouldn't spill anything
outside that user env. but I mention it since that seems like a possible
explanation.
Another thing I did was compile kitchensync from source (since there doesn't
seem to be a package for it).
I've reinstalled (with apt-get install --reinstall) the kdelibs-bin package
(that supplies kdeinit), to no avail.
If someone could point me to a way of troubleshooting/solving this problem,
I'd be happy to hear about it since rebooting my machine every 2 hours insn't
what I've become to expect from debian ;)
I'm running sarge on a Dell latitude D800 laptop, with my own kernel (have to
for the funky hardware and WXGA screen) based on the config of Mike Hardey
[1].
[1] http://mikehardy.net/linux_latitude_d800/.config
Thanks for any pointers
joost
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