[Gllug] Weird KDE behaviour

[Rich Walker]

Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> writes:

> On 2 Mar 2007, Rich Walker uttered the following:
>> Someone logs in to their KDE desktop, and I notice the load has shot
>> from 15 to 200. Most of which is an almost infinite number of artsd's
>> running for the guy who logged in.
>
> This tends to happen if the sound sink is in use when kded starts up.
> kded's artsd then keels over backwards, and every KDE app that wants
> to play a sound then kicks off its own copy.

Hmm. I don't think it was in use, just the system was so loaded that it
might have timed-out...

> Yes, this sucks, but hasn't been fixed because arts is basically
> maintenance-dead. (There's a reason KDE4 is moving to Phonon...)

There's a reason I still use IceWM as well, and this is it :->

cheers, Rich.

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