#759089 plasma-desktop consumes increasingly large amounts of CPU and becomes unreponsive

Package:
plasma-desktop
Source:
plasma-desktop
Description:
Tools and widgets for the desktop
Submitter:
Ralf-Peter Rohbeck
Date:
2014-08-27 08:57:06 UTC
Severity:
important
#759089#5
Date:
2014-08-24 04:29:42 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

after upgrading my KDE jessie system I noticed that plasma-desktop was pretty unresponsive (panels taking a long time to respond.)
Seems to be the same thing as https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273214.
Killing and restarting plasma-desktop helps only for a short while.
I did run the CPU monitors in Ksysguard (it might be related to those according to the KDE Bugzilla; I'll check if it still happens after I reboot.)
While plasma-desktop sucks CPU I see many of these with strace:
stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2819, ...}) = 0
stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2819, ...}) = 0
write(3, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8)         = 8
write(3, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8)         = 8
write(3, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8)         = 8
write(3, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8)         = 8
stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2819, ...}) = 0
stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2819, ...}) = 0
write(3, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8)         = 8
write(3, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8)         = 8
stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2819, ...}) = 0
stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2819, ...}) = 0
write(3, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8)         = 8
write(3, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8)         = 8
stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2819, ...}) = 0
stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2819, ...}) = 0
write(3, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8)         = 8
write(3, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8)         = 8
stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2819, ...}) = 0
stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2819, ...}) = 0
write(3, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8)         = 8
write(3, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8)         = 8

Downgrading to plasma-desktop=4:4.8.4-6 did not fix the issue.

#759089#8
Date:
2014-08-27 08:53:52 UTC
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Control: reassign -1 plasma-desktop 4:4.11.11-1