On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 14:30 -0700, Josef Lowder wrote: > Problem solved by a surprise "fix" ... more details below. > > On Saturday 01 July 2006 10:49 am, Craig White wrote: > > I'm gathering that kded is using up the majority of your cpu and is out > > of whack. The first thing to do is to determine whether this problem is > > with kde on your system in general or simply with your user settings. > > The easiest way to figure this out is to create another user, log out of > > of your user account and log into another user account. You need to > > determine that after you log out that kde has completely released all > > processes before you log in on the other account so it's probably a good > > idea to obtain a virtual console and log in as root > > and run top to make sure that kded has ended. should get > > you back to login mode. > > > > Perhaps you want to get back to us with the outcome of this and let us > > know which distro, which version of kde you are using. > > Turns out that at least one major cause of my slow-down problem was apparently > that a program called 'kat' was running in the background. Someone on > LinuxQuestions.org suggested killing it off as a first step and doing that > certainly made everything run much better -- actually pretty fast again. > > However, it seems evident that there must be some other issues that also need > to be investigated and perhaps resolved. So, I'm still hoping that someone > can provide some additional guidance on what to check, what to change, and > how to make sure the system is properly configured. > > Even after "killing" 'kat,' 'top' was still showing very high percentages > under %CPU time -- in the very high 90% range. > > But then, after I created a new user, as Craig suggested, the %CPU time > dropped to less than 1% both for the new user and for myself as the original > user. That is a mystery to me. > > Another mystery is that when I do: 'who' I see these results: > $ who > joe :0 Jul 1 17:20 > joe pts/0 Jul 1 17:20 > joe pts/1 Jul 2 14:15 > joe pts/3 Jul 2 14:16 ---- If I log in, that becomes :0 If I open say gnome-term, that becomes pts/0 Then I decide to open a new 'tab' in the terminal application, that becomes pts/1 and so on. I suspect these are also included in the 'users' count in top. Craig Craig --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss