Re: kioworker and CPU

Soren Stoutner <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:55:38 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.user.kde
Organization	Debian
Message-ID	<2684077.9Mp67QZiUf@soren-desktop>

On Monday, April 28, 2025 12:27:33 PM Mountain Standard Time MERLIN Philippe wrote:
> Thank you for the method you provide to detect the cause of Kioworker's
> out-of-control behavior, which causes processor overheating. In my case, it
> worked very well; the culprit was a corrupted .pps file. Deleting this file
> in the same session didn't make the problem go away, but upon rebooting,
> everything returned to normal.
> I don't understand why the KDE system is interested in this file if it existed
> in my home directory and I hadn't accessed it for a long time.

KDE is probably trying to make a thumbnail of the file to display in Dolphin.

> Should I file a bug report? If so, I don't know how to write one? Is it a
> Debian or KDE bug?

It sounds like an upstream bug, so I would file it with KDE.

> The offending .pps file is deleted; to find it, I'd have
> to look for it in my backups. I also recently had a problem with clamav
> (clamd), which also used a processor at 100%, thus increasing the processor
> temperature. A reboot calmed everything down.

It would be very helpful to them if you attached a copy of the .pps file to the bug report.  
Otherwise, they don’t have much to go on.

-- 
Soren Stoutner
[email protected]

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