Why is my system slowing down?

[Judd Pickell]

That is what i get for not paying attention.. :(

On 7/1/06, Craig White <craigwhite at 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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