Pulseaudio and its Daemons
KDE 4.3 comes up with pulseaudio whether I want it or not. If I were to use it, I need to start it with options other than the default used, I sincerely believe. Problem is that, as I have stated, an instance of hald and dbus, owned by haldaemon and messageboxd.., are started with it. These bog down the system. Plasma-desktop will be taking > 30%, the daemns 10-20%, this idle. If I kill one of the daemons, low and behold, plasma goes down to a few %. WIthout these daemons, pulseaudio will not start and there may be difficulties restarting kde as well. I think this needs to be brought under control, huh? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Fighting kio_http_cache_cleaner
For some time now kio_http_cache_cleaner has been making me mad by generating huge io in the background running on the least favorable ioniceness (should I say iobadness) regardless of other heavy io jobs, or the laptop being on batteries. iotop gives me the following: Total DISK READ: 656.84 K/s | Total DISK WRITE: 0.00 B/s TID PRIO USER DISK READ DISK WRITE SWAPIN IO>COMMAND 16484 be/4 christop 656.84 K/s0.00 B/s 0.00 % 98.51 % kio_http_cache_cleaner 1 be/4 root0.00 B/s0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % init [2] 2 be/3 root0.00 B/s0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kthreadd] 3 rt/3 root0.00 B/s0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [migration/0] 4 be/3 root0.00 B/s0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [ksoftirqd/0] My cache size is 51200 (I guess KB) which should be KDE's default. Do others experience the same problem? Any hints on what to do about it? "killall kio_http_cache_cleaner" is my little friend and helper right now. I can't see any artifacts from not running the process every once and a while, so I guess there is no need for my hard-drive being bogged down that often. -Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
