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Sometimes konsole is running 100% cpu
It did a few moments after exiting from htop, but is not consistent.

cheers.

You're missing all essential details.
Like what Mageia release, what is konsole doing at that time (strace -p can help with that), what is the full command for konsole at that time (ps auxwww can help with that) are there any children or threads spawned by konsole (pstree -pas can help with that) and does this also happen with a freshly created user?

EDIT: If you're using nvidia driver and this is with mga6, the following might be relevant (which is not a konsole issue):
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topi ... dia-driver
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343803
https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=289&t=121533

I have found out how to make it do it.
If the konsole is started via the right mouse button it will go at 100% after a few moments.

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nigel@endor ~]$ ps axu |grep konsole
nigel      599  0.0  0.0  12292   872 pts/0    S+   17:57   0:00 grep --color konsole
nigel    32635  0.7  0.2 552628 53184 ?        Sl   17:57   0:00 konsole [kdeinit5] --workdir /home/nigel


normally it is this:

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nigel@endor ~]$ ps axu |grep konsole
nigel     2151  5.6  0.2 550800 59904 ?        Sl   17:59   0:00 /bin/konsole
nigel     2191  0.0  0.0  12288   984 pts/0    S+   17:59   0:00 grep --color konsole
[nigel@endor ~]$


cheers

makes no difference, without us being aware what version it is you are having this issue with.

regards peter

I am using mageia 6.
Well it does make a difference. I can get it to do it within few seconds.
cheers.

Well, you only provided one part of the information, unless you provide the rest there's not much we can do ...
Also your ps outputs don't show the 100% cpu usage, on the contrary the lower one shows ~6% cpu usage and the other one 0.

It has done it now:

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Tasks: 243 total,   2 running, 241 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 12.8 us,  0.2 sy,  0.0 ni, 86.9 id,  0.1 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
KiB Mem : 24609820 total, 20641820 free,  1127212 used,  2840788 buff/cache
KiB Swap:  8424412 total,  8424412 free,        0 used. 23083024 avail Mem

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                       
 7845 nigel     20   0  538204  54384  41076 R 100.0  0.2   1:19.74 konsole                       
 6836 nigel     20   0 3136704 106848  81540 S   1.0  0.4   1:38.77 kwin_x11



This was running top.

cat /etc/issue
Mageia release 6 (Official) for x86_64
Kernel 4.9.43-desktop-1.mga6 on an 8-processor x86_64 / \l


cheers

The important parts are still missing:

doktor5000 wrote:what is konsole doing at that time (strace -p can help with that), what is the full command for konsole at that time (ps auxwww can help with that) are there any children or threads spawned by konsole (pstree -pas can help with that) and does this also happen with a freshly created user?

Hello,
When I first installed Mageia 6 It asked for root user and then the first user "nigel"
Later on when I added the second user "user1" it wanted a user ID of 1000, but it was 500 as that what it was before.
I tried to add another user "paul" and the system wanted it be 1000. So something is wrong.
Here is a copy of the /home dir:
Some of the stuff is from puppy linux and skype.

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[nigel@endor home]$ ls -l
total 232760
-rw-r--r--  1 root  root        302 Nov 26  2015 fstab
-rw-r--r--  1 root  root        294 Nov 26  2015 fstab.1
drwxr-xr-x 18 nigel nigel      4096 Aug 30  2014 live/
drwx------  2 root  root      16384 May  1  2014 lost+found/
drwxr-xr-x 83 nigel nigel     20480 Sep  7 09:53 nigel/
drwx------ 21  1000  1000      4096 Aug  1 17:56 paul/
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  root       4096 Nov  6  2014 puppy/
-rw-r--r--  1 root  root  170680352 Nov  6  2014 puppy_tahr_6.0.sfs
-rw-r--r--  1 root  root   36794368 Sep 26  2014 skype-4.3.0.37.sfs
drwx------ 31 user1   501      4096 Sep  7 14:33 user1/
-rw-r--r--  1 root  root   30801920 Nov  6  2014 zdrv_tahr_6.0.sfs


should I change all the user ids ?

All linux distributions, made this change at around 2 releases ago.

so this was true for mageia 5 and 6.

500 is no longer the base userid for new users to be created at.

all systems now start at 1000.

Does it make any difference.

yes and No

In many linux distributions, but not mageia at present

there is a setting in the kernel and pam stack that restricts users over id 1000

pam_succeed_if.so uid > 1000

the idea of this pam module, is to restrict access to the system by users bellow that ID.

as it is deemed those users are system accounts.

So what mageia is doing is shifting its starting id to be in line with other linux's as there could be a conflict if for example your userid was 500, and on centos, debian or other that is assigned to a system or application account.

over NFS you would have system level privileges of any files that were inadvertently shared by that uid.

However this is off topic/not related to your original post.

regards peter

nigelc wrote:Hello,
When I first installed Mageia 6 It asked for root user and then the first user "nigel"
Later on when I added the second user "user1" it wanted a user ID of 1000, but it was 500 as that what it was before.
I tried to add another user "paul" and the system wanted it be 1000. So something is wrong.
[...]
should I change all the user ids ?

No you should please stick to the topic, this one is about konsole using 100% CPU. If you have a question regarding your userids then please open a separate thread for that.

I am infected by the same problem also described by op. Konsole takes 100% CPU of one of my cores.
Such annoying bug! So, back to M5.

Hello,
I solved the problem by switching to MATE desktop.

nigelc wrote:Hello,
I solved the problem by switching to MATE desktop.

Yes, the problem (as doctor5000 pointed) has to do something with nVidia drivers, konsole fonts/glyphs rendering and KF5 version.
I have nVidia GTX 750ti and as soon as I install proprietary driver and it appears. The problem does not appear in Kubuntu 18.04 though.
However, I cant use anything else but Mageia .