Thanks I did what you suggested (I do not need Kat!) and it helped quite a bit. My computer is now usable. May be it should be turned off by default for slower machines. Brigitte Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Friday 16 June 2006 05:44, lostlake wrote: > >> Hi, >> The process kded uses around 88% CPU with just 2 consoles up nothing >> else on. >> Is there anything I can do to get better performance? >> I was running Mandrake 9.2 just fine before (Pentium II 350Mhz old but >> still!!) >> > > kded is a program that loads and excutes plugins, so it is very likely that > one of those plugins is causing this. > Have a look n control center under KDE components -> services > A likely candidate is Kat, an indexer for content based search in user > documents. If you don't need it, it should be possible to deactivate it right > there in control center. > > Cheers, > Kevin > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ___________________________________________________ > . > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.