On Sunday 15 March 2009 21:26:40 Preston C. wrote: Hi Preston, > 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 Did you restart X/KDE after updating? I bet this was among those updates. Kind regards, -- Bram Schoenmakers What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. (Punch, 1855)