I'd suggest bumping this up.. It's definitely the kded5 [kdeinit5] process, and it's written 36 GB of those messages in just the time it's taken me to create an account and log this comment, and eventually kded dies, taking title bars and borders with it. Hardly usable.
This install is i386 also, but bare metal on a Dell E6500. It was a 14.04->16.04 online upgrade. ==snip== user1@kubuntu:/proc/5164$ cat cmdline ; cat io; ls -l fd kded5 [kdeinit5]rchar: 40202083 wchar: 38370100152 syscr: 6534768 syscw: 36874857 read_bytes: 8192 write_bytes: 126373888 cancelled_write_bytes: 212992 total 0 lr-x------ 1 user1 user1 64 Jul 25 18:41 0 -> pipe:[45266] l-wx------ 1 user1 user1 64 Jul 25 18:41 1 -> /home/user1/.xsession-errors lr-x------ 1 user1 user1 64 Jul 25 18:41 10 -> /usr/share/mime/mime.cache lrwx------ 1 user1 user1 64 Jul 25 18:41 11 -> /home/user1/.config/libaccounts-glib/accounts.db lrwx------ 1 user1 user1 64 Jul 25 18:41 12 -> socket:[45293] lrwx------ 1 user1 user1 64 Jul 25 18:41 13 -> anon_inode:[eventfd] lrwx------ 1 user1 user1 64 Jul 25 18:41 14 -> anon_inode:[eventfd] lr-x------ 1 user1 user1 64 Jul 25 18:41 15 -> /dev/urandom lrwx------ 1 user1 user1 64 Jul 25 18:41 16 -> socket:[44517] lrwx------ 1 user1 user1 64 Jul 25 18:41 17 -> socket:[44523] lrwx------ 1 user1 user1 64 Jul 25 18:41 18 -> socket:[44524] lrwx------ 1 user1 user1 64 Jul 25 18:41 19 -> anon_inode:[eventfd] l-wx------ 1 user1 user1 64 Jul 25 18:41 2 -> /home/user1/.xsession-errors lrwx------ 1 user1 user1 64 Jul 25 18:41 20 -> anon_inode:[eventfd] lrwx------ 1 user1 user1 64 Jul 25 18:41 21 -> socket:[45373] lr-x------ 1 user1 user1 64 Jul 25 18:41 22 -> anon_inode:inotify lr-x------ 1 user1 user1 64 Jul 25 18:41 23 -> /proc/5164/mounts lrwx------ 1 user1 user1 64 Jul 25 18:41 24 -> socket:[44810] lr-x------ 1 user1 user1 64 Jul 25 18:41 25 -> /dev/rfkill lrwx------ 1 user1 user1 64 Jul 25 18:41 26 -> anon_inode:[eventfd] lrwx------ 1 user1 user1 64 Jul 25 18:41 27 -> socket:[45681] lr-x------ 1 user1 user1 64 Jul 25 18:41 28 -> /var/lib/dpkg/status lr-x------ 1 user1 user1 64 Jul 25 18:41 29 -> /var/cache/apt-xapian-index/index.2/record.DB lrwx------ 1 user1 user1 64 Jul 25 18:41 3 -> socket:[45284] lrwx------ 1 user1 user1 64 Jul 25 18:41 30 -> /dev/ptmx lrwx------ 1 user1 user1 64 Jul 25 18:41 31 -> 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Matching subscriptions: Ubuntu Studio Bugs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1595588 Title: Tons of "log_kioremote: RemoteDirNotify::FilesChanged" errors in ~/.xsession-errors Status in kde-runtime package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Running KUbuntu 16.04 under VmWare Workstation 12. $ grep "log_kioremote: RemoteDirNotify::FilesChanged" .xsession-errors | wc -l 273216 After few minutes: $ grep "log_kioremote: RemoteDirNotify::FilesChanged" .xsession-errors | wc -l 517520 $ tail .xsession-errors () () log_kioremote: RemoteDirNotify::FilesChanged () () () log_kioremote: RemoteDirNotify::FilesChanged () () () $ mount sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=1848744k,nr_inodes=205555,mode=755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000) tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=373308k,mode=755) /dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k) tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,release_agent=/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd,nsroot=/) pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct,nsroot=/) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices,nsroot=/) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/pids type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,pids,nsroot=/) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio,nsroot=/) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio,nsroot=/) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb,nsroot=/) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event,nsroot=/) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory,nsroot=/) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset,nsroot=/) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer,nsroot=/) systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=29,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct) mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime) hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime) debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime) fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime) vmhgfs-fuse on /mnt/hgfs type fuse.vmhgfs-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other) vmware-vmblock on /run/vmblock-fuse type fuse.vmware-vmblock (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other) tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=373308k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: kde-runtime 4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-24.43-generic 4.4.10 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-24-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: i386 CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Thu Jun 23 18:00:08 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-26 (58 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release i386 (20160420.1) SourcePackage: kde-runtime UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde-runtime/+bug/1595588/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-bugs Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

