perberos/Mate-Desktop-Environment — Issue #67: mateconfd-2 eats up CPU
Author: subchee
Created: 2011-12-20 14:02:50+00:00
State: open

I noticed that my laptop (ThinkPad T61, Intel GMA965) with Debian Wheezy + MATÉ is slow and the CPU is overheating.

Partial output of top:

load average: 2.06, 2.08, 1.61

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
26929 subchee 20 0 10172 4696 2548 S 10.3 0.2 0:14.59 mateconfd-2

System properties (up-to-date Debian sid):
$ uname -a
Linux debian-sid 3.1.0-1-486 #1 Mon Nov 14 07:36:41 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
$ glxinfo | head -13
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer,
GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_INTEL_swap_event
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
$ lscpu
Architecture: i686
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 1
On-line CPU(s) list: 0
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 15
Stepping: 13
CPU MHz: 1801.000
BogoMIPS: 3591.05
Virtualization: VT-x
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 2048K
$ mate-about --version
MATE Desktop Environment 1.1.0
$ dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall > packages.txt

packages.txt : http://paste.debian.net/149726/

If I kill mateconfd-2 process it comes back automatically and uses the same amount of CPU time, so killing the process doesn't solve the problem.