That is what i get for not paying attention.. :( On 7/1/06, Craig White wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 09:46 -0700, Josef Lowder wrote: > > Still hoping for some suggestions on how to solve the subject problem. > > > > In a recent previous message, I did reply to the only two suggestions > > that I had received, which ask what my disk usage was and what 'top' > > showed. Here are those answers: > > > > $ df -h > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/hda6 9.7G 7.3G 1.9G 80% / > > /dev/hdb1 4.0G 1.3G 2.7G 32% /mnt/windows > > > > top - 10:12:33 up 3 days, 2:03, 3 users, load average: 1.13, 1.44, > 1.94 > > Tasks: 96 total, 1 running, 95 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > > Cpu(s): 75.7% us, 2.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 21.6% wa, 0.3% hi, > 0.0% > > si Mem: 515484k total, 509460k used, 6024k free, 1704k > buffers > > Swap: 1269084k total, 100368k used, 1168716k free, 334524k cached > > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > > 3923 joe 15 0 137m 73m 5868 S 64.2 14.6 2708:27 kded > > 23690 joe 15 0 70620 37m 25m S 0.0 7.5 0:08.93 kontact > > > > Prior to this recent drastic slowdown, kmail used to open in 1 or 2 > seconds. > > Now it takes up to 30 seconds and sometimes it doesn't open at all. > > A terminal shell window used to open instantaneously, and now it can > > take from 10 to 15 seconds to open. > > > > I did not make any changes in my system, so can't imagine why this > > drastic slowdown has occurred. > > > > Hope someone can offer some guidance to solve this mystery. > ---- > 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. > > 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 >