kubuntu 12.04 performance deterioration

[joe at actionline.com]

Thanks Matt.  All very helpful.

I finally did find and fix the problem with Firefox, and that has also
solved a runaway process (for which Brian provided the clue).  It seems I
had a tiny script in /home/joe/bin from ages ago that was using upwards of
75% of the processor power, and deleting that script solved the problem.
Strange that having that same script on my several PCLinuxOS boxes never
did produce the same problem.

Now, if I can just figure out how to get rid of the annoying kwallet,
cashew, panel icons continually being spontaneously rearranged from the
way I want them, (and several other kde annoyances), perhaps I can finally
get this system stablized and usable.  ;)

Thanks again.


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> joe wrote:
>> Can't believe that I had never heard of CTRL+ESC before.
>> Is there some way to save a copy of that list to a text file?
>
> Not that I could find.  However, "top -b -n 1 > top.txt" puts similar info
> into top.txt, where you can fool with it in a reasonable way.
>
>> Could not find any file named /var/log/messages
>
> kUbuntu must put that info in a differently named file somewhere in
> /var/log/
> Look in there and find where the logs are, because that info will be
> very useful at some point in the future.
>
>> but when I click on the menu icon, a desktop firefox icon bounces
>> for a few seconds (how to stop that annoying effect?)
>
> System Settings -> Application and System Notifications -> Launch
> Feedback,
> then set it to whatever you like.  There's a *lot* of stuff in KDE's
> System
> Settings application; poke around in there and find as much as you can.
> It's
> possible that disabling "nepomuk semantic desktop" under Desktop Search
> would
> help, as constantly re-indexing everything in your ~ would use a lot of
> CPU
> and I/O to no real purpose.
>
>> and firefox does not load.
>
> Open a konsole and start firefox from the command line.  It should output
> something like "/usr/lib64/libfoobar.so.1 : cannot open shared object
> file, no
> such file or directory", which will give you some idea of what needs to be
> fixed.
>
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