Why is my system slowing down?

[Josef Lowder]

Thanks, Craig.  I think you are right about my kde user settings 
probably being out of whack.  I'll try what you suggest and 
report back.

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.