I was up early this morning and fired up the computer and KDE 4.8.2, and went for a cup of coffee. BTW, the "Evil Triplets" are either not installed or disabled.

While sipping that first cup of coffee and looking the desktop which was completely IDLE at that point, I started Gkrellm and watched the CPU usage levels for a while. KDE was using as much of 15-16% of the CPU. Do the same thing in Xfce and it uses only 0-1%.

So the question becomes, just what is KDE doing in the background that warrants that much activity??!!

Thanks.

Maybe the desktop effects were turned on?

I think it was Nepomuk/Strigi indexing your files.

Not the case. As I said in the original message, "...BTW, the "Evil Triplets" are either not installed or disabled..."
The "Evil Triplets" are akonadi, nepomuk and strigi.


Turning off all the desktop effects results in the CPU usage dropping to 10-11%. So what is running that takes 10-11% of the CPU?

I've noticed some of the same things. I feel it's gotten even worse in this latest release of 4.8.2. I also disable pretty much all graphic effects and the "Evil Triplet" as you describe -- it is STILL gobbling up a good bit of CPU time.

It's perplexing. I would switch to XFCE if it were just slightly more visually consistent.

I have 390 procs going, 3 users, and cpu usage is averaging maybe 5%. It bounces quickly from 1 - 2% ON CPU 1 AND 2 - 3% ON CPU2.

I do have some effects active, except for that cube thingy. I also have the evil triplets disabled. My computer has been up this time for over about a week.

Is it a specific process or a combination of several ones?

I don't honestly know. Its what gkrellm has on display. Top shows about 30 processes running at 1% of cpu and 4% usage of 4gb of ram.

Get qps from slackbuilds so you can easily see what is running under what.

Actually, system monitor under the system menu should tell you pretty much the same thing.

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Tried using the System Monitor, but the figures didn't add up correctly. X uses a little, the plasma desktop use a little, the window manager uses some, and the system monitor, of course, but when you add them all up it doesn't come close to the total reported in the bottom frame of the box or by Gkrellm.

Well, try qps then. You'll note that I mentioned it first. :-)

Would you be kind enough to expand on what you mean by "visually consistent"?
Thanks.

The direction which KDE4 has taken saddens me.

I was once a campaigner for it, but now I'm over it.

KDE3 managed to do so much more with less.

I'm using the version of KDE4 which came with 13.37, whatever that was, but my hardware is old and struggles more and more with each release. It is fast becoming bloatware with "features" I don't want (or need) and it seemingly no longer suits me. I've tweaked it to the point that it no longer looks like KDE4.

I've investigated XFCE and it shows a lot of promise, but what I would really like at this stage is for KDE3 to come back to life.

qps is a nice app. Just now installed and looking at it. A lot cleaner than gkrellm and easier to read.

Don't know if this has anything to do with it or not, but I just noticed that in KDE Gkrellm reports 2 users, but in Xfce it only reports 1 user.
Any educated guesses?
Thanks.