ideinit hogs 60% of cpu time

i have a machine that's been up 17 days and the
ideinit process had taken more than 60% of the
total available clock time.

14818/(24*60*17)
.60531045751633986928

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
...
877 z 19 17 8064 6548 4484 R 13.1 0.2 14820:00 kdeinit

is this a known and understood problem?

are there any solutions/workarounds?

thanks

z

Check to see if dma is enabled on the hard disc, and check to make sure you have the best available driver for your IDE chipset in place either compiled into the kernel or as a module.

Your hard drive may be failing. Check dmesg for filesystem and IDE errors as this is a big indicator.

--Shade

thanks for the reply, shade.

i checked dmesg and only see a bunch of nfs server
not responding messages. no IDE errors. dma is turned on.

why would kdeinit be so sensitive to the ide parameters?

z

i think we got confused
first post mistype "ide"init instead of kdeinit

but yes something is misconfigured and doing something strange or you just have a real cpu hog aspect of kde running you need to turn off (check all logs for repeated errors)
this is mine to compare to if it helps

(04:24pm:06/07/05)
(gary) ~  $ ps  -C kdeinit -F
UID        PID  PPID  C    SZ  RSS PSR STIME TTY          TIME CMD
gary      1050     1  0  8535 17060  1 16:06 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit Running...       
gary      1053     1  0  8291 16100  1 16:06 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid
gary      1055  1050  0  8618 17408  1 16:06 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit: klauncher       
gary      1058     1  0  8678 18728  1 16:06 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit: kded            
gary      1067     1  0 10511 21440  1 16:06 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit: knotify         
gary      1070     1  0  8652 18664  1 16:06 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit: ksmserver       
gary      1071  1050  0  9440 21284  0 16:06 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit: kwin -session 1010414214c15f0001104655
gary      1073     1  0  8763 19112  0 16:06 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit: khotkeys        
gary      1075     1  0  9614 22928  1 16:06 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit: kdesktop        
gary      1076  1050  0  8708 17636  1 16:06 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit: kio_file file /tmp/ksocket-gary/klaunc
gary      1078     1  0  9930 23748  0 16:06 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit: kicker

aha. one console session is the hog. amazing.

# ps -C kdeinit -F
UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD
z 840 1 0 5947 1148 0 May19 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit: Running...
z 843 1 0 5905 7520 0 May19 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid
z 845 840 0 5910 8052 0 May19 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit: klauncher
z 848 1 0 6565 9504 0 May19 ? 00:00:07 kdeinit: kded
z 854 1 0 6409 10032 0 May19 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit: kxkb
z 863 1 0 7725 7672 0 May19 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit: knotify
z 866 1 0 6086 7488 0 May19 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit: ksmserver
z 867 840 0 6684 9684 0 May19 ? 00:00:19 kdeinit: kwin -session 117f0000010001073930915000
z 870 1 0 6732 8548 0 May19 ? 00:00:15 kdeinit: kdesktop
z 872 840 0 6218 1800 0 May19 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit: kio_file file /tmp/ksocket-z lhluVC/k
z 873 1 0 7360 9900 0 May19 ? 00:00:55 kdeinit: kicker
z 875 1 0 6340 2928 0 May19 ? 00:00:02 kdeinit: klipper
z 876 840 0 6802 2864 0 May19 ? 00:00:05 kdeinit: konsole -session 117f0000010001089997862
z 877 840 59 7143 6548 0 May19 ? 11-19:25:43 kdeinit: konsole -session 117f0000010001094660
z 878 840 0 6815 4212 0 May19 ? 00:00:04 kdeinit: konsole -session 117f0000010001098288497
z 879 840 0 6792 11692 0 May19 ? 00:00:04 kdeinit: konsole -session 117f0000010001101598337
z 880 840 0 6818 11572 0 May19 ? 00:00:04 kdeinit: konsole -session 117f0000010001102544850
z 884 840 0 6908 4984 0 May19 ? 00:00:04 kdeinit: konsole -session 117f0000010001107186487
z 889 840 0 6790 5192 0 May19 ? 00:00:03 kdeinit: konsole -session 117f0000010001107201084
z 904 840 0 6789 4472 0 May19 ? 00:00:04 kdeinit: konsole -session 117f0000010001107894006
z 912 840 0 6833 5036 0 May19 ? 00:00:04 kdeinit: konsole -session 117f0000010001107894082
z 917 840 0 7292 8136 0 May19 ? 00:29:50 kdeinit: konsole -session 117f0000010001110475073