hi.
yesterday i've upgraded to awesome 4.3.1 KDE release. it's really great release.
but not without flaws. i don't know it yakuake is in stock KDE applications, but anyway...
i've found that it takes yakuake 5-10 seconds to show its window, when i pressed shortcut key F12. if it was already shown, it came to top instantly.
another one - yakuake ate ~280MB (!!!) of virtual memory. pretty much for simple terminal emulator

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sergey@opensuse:~> ps -efl | grep -e PID -e yakuake
F S UID        PID  PPID  C PRI  NI ADDR SZ WCHAN  STIME TTY          TIME CMD
1 S sergey   11142     1  0  80   0 - 71672 -      Sep03 ?        00:00:04 /usr/bin/yakuake
0 R sergey   18506 17847  0  80   0 -  1839 -      11:32 pts/2    00:00:00 grep -e PID -e yakuake
sergey@opensuse:~> echo "71672*4/1024" | bc -l
279.96875000000000000000


PS. i'm using openSUSE 11.1 and their Factory repository of KDE 4.3.1. yakuake came from package yakuake-2.9.6-10.1.

When Yakuake is beginning to be displayed ( ie. the hotkey has been pressed for the first time ) does CPU usage increase significantly? Also, do you use Desktop Effects?

desktop effects are turned off completely. that is all i can tell now because i'm away from that box. more details will be later in the evening.

ok, i checked that out. after i've pressed F12 key everything stops for a while. i saw it on konsole running `top'. after yakuake window have popped up things began to "behave" again. in top i could see `Xorg' process consuming ~70% of one of CPU's cores.

You need to contact Yakuake's maintainer, and report a bug unfortunately. It appears that changes in KDE 4.3 have caused regressions ( probably due to workarounds of bugs ) in Yakuake.

Sorry, I'm not aware of any such regressions or "workarounds of bugs".

Generally speaking, the majority of problems Yakuake has ever exhibited are rooted in the Konsole KPart component it embeds (the terminal, its context menu and the profile management dialogs are Konsole code, not Yakuake's). Animation performance is often due to outdated nVidia drivers, see: http://websvn.kde.org/*checkout*/trunk/ ... ke/KDE4FAQ

bcooksley wrote:You need to contact Yakuake's maintainer, and report a bug unfortunately. It appears that changes in KDE 4.3 have caused regressions ( probably due to workarounds of bugs ) in Yakuake.

I doubt that's the reason. It works as it should here. It's as speedy as it's ever been and no excessive memory usage either.

Ah.... Oops. Graphics drivers could be a definite culprit, although I would have thought they wouldn't have been a problem if it hadn't been encountered previously.

so, to sum it up, what should i do now? the only thing that was changed - whole suit of KDE apps was upgraded to 4.3.1.

Does Konsole have the same issue opening?

bcooksley wrote:Does Konsole have the same issue opening?

no. konsole starts immediately and doesn't cause any excessive CPU usage. though its vm usage is also... er... astounding. 300MB.

as for graphics driver... i have built-in ati hd 3430 graphic card and use latest ati fglrx drivers version 9.8. i've been using it before with kde 4.2.4.
there wasn't any problem with yakuake and this video driver until upgrade to kde 4.3.1

@hein: This appears to be a regression in KDE 4.3, is this a Konsole or Yakuake issue?

so it seems that i'm the only one with such problem?
at least please advice me how do start investigating this problem.

What is your animation speed set to? Have you tried to set it to 0?
Is it faster if you decrease the width and height?

animation speed is already at 0, as always. and i haven't changed yakuake settings since KDE 4.1 (deleting and recreating .kde4/share/*/yakuake* doesn't count )
as for window size... it seems that size ir really matters. when sizing down from 80% x 80% down to 10% x 10% responsitivity of resising and appearing increases.

PS. there is a glitch in upper-left corner of yakuake window. it appears during resizinng ow yakuake.