CPU running full steam under KDE

[Peter Schuller]

> I'm wondering why the CPU fan is always on when running KDE desktop
> on my Dell Inspiron (acpi hacks enabled) - sure KDE is a CPU intensive
> application but it is annoying somehow. Can it be influenced?

Check your top... you will probably find a kdeinit process eating CPU 
constantly (5-15% or so depending on CPU speed). This is due to it polling  
your .kde directory for configuration changes.

I understand there is a patch for a kqueue based implementation that doesn't 
exhibit this problem, but was never commited. Not sure what the status is. 

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/ Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB

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