On Monday 19 January 2004 06:38 pm, James Richard Tyrer wrote: > Chris wrote: > > This process seems to start on its own at various times. When running > > it uses up almost 100% of my cpu resources. Whats its purpose? Tried > > google.com/linux with no real understandable results. I'm running > > Mandrake 9.0 with KDE 3.0.3 > > IIUC, it is the process that produces the thumbnails in the Konqueror > icon view mode for the previews. > > While it is running it would be normal for it to take almost 100% of your > CPU but it should only run with high CPU usage while previews are > replacing icons in Konqueror. If it is running that way at other times, > this is a problem. I believe I've seen it start on its own even when Konqueror isn't running. I happen to notice a 100% cpu usage on GKrellm, start KSysGuard and there it is. -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 8:48pm up 18 days, 6:26, 8 users, load average: 0.27, 0.24, 0.20 ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.