On 7/1/06, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> 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 <Control><Alt><F2> and log in as root
and run top to make sure that kded has ended. <Control><F7> 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

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