Kopete chat window

[Amit Kucheria]

On 6/2/07, Arjan van de Ven <arjan at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Rudi Lippert wrote:
> > Whenever have a Kopete chat window open, Kopete and X show up very high in the
> > wakeup list.
> >
> > Top causes for wakeups:
> >   36.7% ( 16.2)            kopete : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
> >   30.8% ( 13.6)                 X : do_setitimer (it_real_fn)
> >
> > Can anyone tell me why this happens or how I can find out myself?
>
> you can start investigating by running
>
> strace -tt -p `pidof kopete`
>
> and see what it's trying to do....

Kopete does lots of select()s with short timeouts.

I have been thinking if a patch to Qt and Glib to batch their timers
might help with this.

/Amit

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Amit Kucheria, Linux developer