Re: [trinity-users] Anyone noticed this with Trinity and plymouthd?

From the OpenSuSE KDE3 folks. Leslie ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [opensuse-kde3] plymouthd - takes continual 6% CPU with kdm Date: 2018-05-07, 03:32:08 From: "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty(a)suddenlinkmail.com> To: "suse-kde3" <opensuse-kde3(a)opensuse.org> All, There is an issue, that this is more to document than anything else. I've done 2 Leap 42.3 installs. On this last one, after a minimal X install via the Net-Install CD, I kept an eye on plymouth. In my 1st install, I checked with top in konsole, more-or-less on a whim, and found plymouthd churning away at 6%. On this second Leap 42.3 install (again 1st to minimum X via yast net-install, because you cannot configure outside repos during install, only community OSS, OSS-Debug, etc...) -- anyway, I decided to keep a closer watch on plymouth and find out when it started behaving badly. On the initial setup and with the xdm "Default" display manager (that clunky old thing with the system console window running in bottom-left corner), plymouthd behaved, no problems. I spent the better part of a day, moving documents over, .kde, etc.. and installing kde3 and the rest of the normal things I install. All the while, plymouthd was fine. However, after setting kdm3 in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager and kde as the default WM, after rebooting and launching kde via kdm, plymouthd was again churning away at 6% continually. So there is a definite issue with plymouth and kdm. I don't know exactly why. This 2nd install was to an older laptop, so I didn't have 6% to spare and just rpm -e all plymouth.... Problem gone. If anyone else still has plymouth installed and can check with top to confirm plymouth is hogging CPU, that would be worth investigating. I can confirm this on 2 boxes. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.