Solution: Kmix eating Up all available Cpu time on one core

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#1

I had a problem with Kmix. Kmix increase the usage of CPU. The solution is that:

Open your terminal and write that

killall -9 kmix
rm -rf $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/apps/kmix/
rm -f $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/config/kmix*
kmix &

This is the solution.

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Stamos.:slight_smile:

#2 
killall -9 kmix
rm -rf $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/apps/kmix/
rm -f $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/config/kmix*
kmix &

Hello stamostolias and thanks for this solution. Do you mind explaining what each command does, line by line and just what do you end up with for a mixer after you run this fix?

Thank You,

#3

Do you mean Kmix & ??

Do you have the same problem James with me(I mean Kmix)??
Just experimenting with my old laptop which has the same problem and also searching about this problem had made work.:slight_smile:

#4

I would say it’s the solution posted here, corrupted user kmix profile;
Kmix eating up all available CPU time on one core • KDE Community Forums

#5

Did well who I posted or not??

#6

stamostolias, I would suggest that before anyone ran these commands, they might want to know what they did. One step would be like that of malcolmlewis, pointing to where the solution came from and where presumably, more info could be obtained on its exact purpose.

OR

One could just say what each line does like this:

killall -9 kmix # This stops the program kmix from running, if it is running.

rm -rf $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/apps/kmix/ # This deletes the folder /home/yourname/.kde4/share/apps/kmix/ and all subfolders/files therein.

rm -f $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/config/kmix* # This deletes all files in the folder /home/yourname/.kde4/share/config/ that start with kmix.

kmix & # This restarts the program kmix and allows it to continue running in the background, even when this terminal session is closed.

This was what I was thinking of. If you want someone to run your code, we want them to feel it will do something good and not do any harm. While it is hard to be totally sure of anything, I like to put in as many comments to my coding as I can to help others and to even help me remember what I was doing.

Thank You,

#7

Do not worry about that. I run these commands because I had this problem and it is ok.