My cpu monitor is almost reading 100%, right after I updated today. It was a very large update because I hadn't updated in about a month. Here is what "$top" gives me: top - 16:22:55 up 9 min, 2 users, load average: 1.36, 1.32, 0.68 Tasks: 99 total, 3 running, 96 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 34.8%us, 18.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 46.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2073268k total, 698532k used, 1374736k free, 14572k buffers Swap: 2281220k total, 0k used, 2281220k free, 384848k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2973 preston 20 0 80996 19m 14m R 99 1.0 7:17.37 kded4 2931 root 20 0 331m 53m 4288 S 3 2.6 0:28.89 X 2999 preston 20 0 272m 38m 22m S 3 1.9 0:17.47 plasma 3076 preston 20 0 224m 95m 21m S 1 4.7 0:50.88 firefox 1 root 20 0 1688 576 512 S 0 0.0 0:00.71 init 2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 ksoftirqd/0 5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 6 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1 7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1 8 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1 9 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0 10 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 events/1 11 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 12 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kstop/0 13 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kstop/1 14 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 kblockd/0 15 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/1 16 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid 17 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify 18 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 kseriod 19 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush 20 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 pdflush 21 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0 22 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 23 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/1 32 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 ata/0 33 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/1 34 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_aux 38 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0 39 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1 Thanks for any help, Preston