Hello all,
For many years I rely on the Kate text editor for programming, at work and at home.
Some time ago I installed openSUSE 13.1 at home (at work I’m still using 12.3 fortunately) and since then, I experienced strange phenomena’s with Kate.
During typing/editing Kate freezes regularly. The time that it freezes is usulally very short, about one second, and then it continues normally.
This means that when you type, the characters don’t appear on the screen till the freeze is over. Also, during the freeeze, the mousecursor is not visible.
Recently, the duration of a freeze became much longer, up to more than 5 seconds. It’s super annoying. Kate does not crash, it does not corrupt my documents, it does not loose the typed characters during a freeze. It’s only the Kate window that freezes temporarily.
Now I discovered something more strange. Normally the duration of a freeze is usually about a second or less.
When I start KTorrent and it’s downloading a torrent, the duration of the freeze’s increase a lot.
When I switch-off KTorrent, the freezes are still their but much, much shorter.
Output of TOP:
Tasks: 167 total, 2 running, 165 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 0.8 us, 0.4 sy, 0.0 ni, 98.5 id, 0.2 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.1 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem: 8274996 total, 2345748 used, 5929248 free, 121252 buffers
KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 used, 0 free, 1876084 cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2495 novara 20 0 231016 90704 58284 S 5.639 1.096 1:56.46 ktorrent
Btw, the pc has a 6-core AMD cpu.
As far as I noticed, it’s only Kate that shows this behaviour. Other applications run nice and smooth at the same time.
With openSUSE 12.3 and before, I never had this problem.
Any ideas, suggestions?