I wonder why there are so many open (unused?) kio slaves - is this misconfiguration, a kde bug or intended? I'm running KDE 3.3.2 on SuSE 9.0. Besides being a waste of resources, which actually doesn't bug _me_, it's really annoying that I cannot access my ftp server - which allows only 2 simultaneous connections from one machine - after some time reading/editing(kate)/writing files from/to it without manually killing the slave's processes. As an example here are kmail's slaves (I use only 2 pop and 2/3 smtp accounts (3 configured, 2 used)) after starting kontact 3 minutes ago: $ ps x|grep kontact 10979 ? S 0:05 kontact 10982 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: kio_pop3 pop3 /tmp/ksocket-temple/klauncherNODAIa.slave-socket /tmp/ksocket-temple/kontactrZogIa.slave-socket 10983 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: kio_pop3 pop3 /tmp/ksocket-temple/klauncherNODAIa.slave-socket /tmp/ksocket-temple/kontactrZogIa.slave-socket 10984 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: kio_pop3 pop3 /tmp/ksocket-temple/klauncherNODAIa.slave-socket /tmp/ksocket-temple/kontactrZogIa.slave-socket 11000 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: kio_smtp smtp /tmp/ksocket-temple/klauncherNODAIa.slave-socket /tmp/ksocket-temple/kontactCxhxOb.slave-socket 11001 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: kio_smtp smtp /tmp/ksocket-temple/klauncherNODAIa.slave-socket /tmp/ksocket-temple/kontactCxhxOb.slave-socket 11002 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: kio_smtp smtp /tmp/ksocket-temple/klauncherNODAIa.slave-socket /tmp/ksocket-temple/kontactCxhxOb.slave-socket 11003 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: kio_smtp smtp /tmp/ksocket-temple/klauncherNODAIa.slave-socket /tmp/ksocket-temple/kontactCxhxOb.slave-socket 11072 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: kio_pop3 pop3 /tmp/ksocket-temple/klauncherNODAIa.slave-socket /tmp/ksocket-temple/kontactrZogIa.slave-socket 11073 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: kio_pop3 pop3 /tmp/ksocket-temple/klauncherNODAIa.slave-socket /tmp/ksocket-temple/kontactrZogIa.slave-socket 11076 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: kio_pop3 pop3 /tmp/ksocket-temple/klauncherNODAIa.slave-socket /tmp/ksocket-temple/kontactWA0j2a.slave-socket 11077 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: kio_pop3 pop3 /tmp/ksocket-temple/klauncherNODAIa.slave-socket /tmp/ksocket-temple/kontactWA0j2a.slave-socket 11078 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: kio_pop3 pop3 /tmp/ksocket-temple/klauncherNODAIa.slave-socket /tmp/ksocket-temple/kontactWA0j2a.slave-socket 11079 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: kio_pop3 pop3 /tmp/ksocket-temple/klauncherNODAIa.slave-socket /tmp/ksocket-temple/kontactWA0j2a.slave-socket 11080 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: kio_pop3 pop3 /tmp/ksocket-temple/klauncherNODAIa.slave-socket /tmp/ksocket-temple/kontactWA0j2a.slave-socket ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.