> I'm currently running Debian Unstable, with KDE 3.0.4, using the packages
> from
> kde.org. For some reason, when I log out, I end up with a kdeinit process
> still running, causing 100% CPU utilization. It's easy enough to kill -9
> that process, but I'm wondering what's causing it to hang and eat my CPU,
> and how to fix it.
This process is kdesktop.
We are running a terminal application server here, with about 15 terminals
connected running KDE, and after users logout kdesktops often hang.
As a workaround for now, I have the following script constantly running as
root. Ugly hack, but works.
#!/bin/bash
getpids()
{
ps ax | grep kdesktop | awk '$3=="R" {print($1)}'
}
gethanged()
{
(i=0; while [ $i -lt 10 ]; do getpids; sleep 1; i=$[$i+1]; done) |
awk 'a[$1]=="" {a[$1]=0}
{a[$1]++}
END {for (i in a) if (a[i]==10) print(i)}'
}
while true; do
if [ x"`getpids`" = x ]; then sleep 60; continue; fi
l=`gethanged`
if [ x"$l" != x ]; then
echo `(date; echo ": KILLING: $l") | tr '\n' ' '`
kill -9 $l
fi
done
