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 <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.
>
> 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
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