[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#580289: Bug#580289: kvirc: Program use too much ram and swap

[Francesco]

Alle 22:52 del mercoledì 5 maggio 2010, Raúl Sánchez Siles ha scritto:


>   Well, KVIrc it's not part of what's now called KDE SC (software
> compilation), but rather developed by a separated group of people [0],
>  anyway Mark is right. This looks like an upstream problem.

I was looking in kvirc website and found something similar:
https://svn.kvirc.de/kvirc/ticket/765
So there is a real problam with latest releases.

>   Unfortunately the information you provide is not enough to file a new bug
> report against KVIrc [1]. It looks like an infinite loop starving machine
> resources. However you can provide more information answering these
>  questions: · When do you experience the problem?

After a while it's running, time is variable.

>   · Do you have any automatic connection to servers on startup?

No, I connect manually; but if it can be useful I use to connect to more than 
one server.

>   · Could you try moving the KVIrc config dir which is usually ~/.kvirc or
> ~/.config/kvirc elsewhere and retry? Whereever it works or not you can
>  safely remove the newly created dir an move the old back to the original
>  place, restoring your usual configuration.

I'd give it a try

>   · Depending on your knowledge, could you try installing kvirc-dbg
>  package, starting kvirc and then getting a backtrace of the loop. Hint:
>  gdb -p $(pidof kvirc) and then bt from the gdb command line.

Should not be a problem, just the time to debug.


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