Ktorrent is eating all my cpu

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 07:58 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> 
> 
> --- On Sun, 10/12/08, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu
> > To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> > Date: Sunday, October 12, 2008, 7:29 AM
> > Well, not quite, but I was alerted to this when my fan
> > started whining
> > and the cpu temperature rose about 5 degrees above normal.
> > A look at
> > 'top' confirmed that Ktorrent (downloading a single
> > torrent) was using
> > about 80% of my cpu. The X server was using most of the
> > rest.
> > 
> > This is F9 with KDE 4.1.1.
> > 
> > I updated to KDE 4.1.2 (using "yum groupupdate
> > KDE" from
> > updates-testing) but it made no difference (actually, the
> > whole machine
> > started crawling until I disabled Desktop Effects, which
> > hadn't seemed
> > to matter before, but even after doing that Ktorrent was
> > just as bad).
> CPU level going to high levels, this is due to autohide bug:
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172549
> 
> Kevin has fixed this.  Thanks Kevin :)
> \begin{QUOTE}
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=65974
> 
> Try kdebase-workspace-4.1.2-5.fc10: I found the culprit, it's a patch which 
> fixes flickering during the autohide animations which has this unfortunate side 
> effect. I disabled that patch for now until it can get fixed properly. (I 
> didn't disable autohide entirely, it's still there, it just looks ugly. ;-) 
> Still disabled by default though, and as long as I have any influence on it, 
> it'll stay that way (even if upstream decides to enable it at some point), I 
> really hate autohide. ;-) )

I don't have autohide enabled, but I'll take a look anyway, thanks.

poc