The problem is not the fact that this KDE profile was used once on a laptop. I replaced these files, no change: powerdevil2profilesrc powerdevil.notifyrc powerdevilprofilesrc powerdevilrc ...and the problem persists. Furthermore, the profile has been used on this system for over a month without issues, only today did the system become sluggish and cause me to check. There is plenty of memory, and the CPUs are cool: âganymede:~$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3771 2133 1638 0 96 1360 -/+ buffers/cache: 675 3095 Swap: 2998 0 2998 âganymede:~$ sensors atk0110-acpi-0 Adapter: ACPI interface Vcore Voltage: +1.14 V (min = +0.85 V, max = +1.60 V) +3.3 Voltage: +3.25 V (min = +2.97 V, max = +3.63 V) +5 Voltage: +4.97 V (min = +4.50 V, max = +5.50 V) +12 Voltage: +11.98 V (min = +10.20 V, max = +13.80 V) CPU FAN Speed: 2428 RPM (min = 600 RPM) CHASSIS FAN Speed: 0 RPM (min = 1200 RPM) CPU Temperature: +34.0ÂC (high = +60.0ÂC, crit = +95.0ÂC) MB Temperature: +37.0ÂC (high = +45.0ÂC, crit = +95.0ÂC) k8temp-pci-00c3 Adapter: PCI adapter Core0 Temp: +35.0ÂC Core0 Temp: +34.0ÂC Core1 Temp: +30.0ÂC Core1 Temp: +31.0ÂC âganymede:~$ -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.