Most likely, the arts deamon, which is the KDE 2 sound server, is using this processor time. On my laptop, for example, even when idle, artsd uses 45-65% of the processor time. To check, press ctrl+escape, kde system guard comes up and you can look for the artsd process. I haven't found a solution for this except to kill it. Sometimes after a kill and restart it will behave, sometimes no. I haven't noticed this on my desktop machine, but perhaps its simply so much faster it's unnoticeable. I haven't formally checked yet. Glen Sagers Olaf Marzocchi wrote: > Yesterday I had to compress a big tar archive (350MB) with Bzip2. > I launched it from a console inside KDE, then in a second console I > launched "top", that told me KDE was using 46% (at least) of the > processor's power, and bzip2 45-50%. > I thought it was strange, since KDE was doing NOTHING!! that console was > the only app running! > > Could you explain this? One (among many) reasons to switch to Linux is the > better use of the power, so what is this? > > Another (silly) question: I didn't remember how to compress the archive > with tar then bzip using a single command line, in order to have only the > final .tar.bz2 file in the HD without passing from the .tar file. Could you > write it? > > Thank you > Olaf > > Configuration: Celeron 333A, 128 MB, 6+3 GB HD, SoundBlaster 128 PCI, > Realtek Ethernet, i740 video card running at 1024@16bpp, Toshiba CD and LG > 8080B CD-RW > hda1: win 98, hda5 Linux ReiserFS, hda6 swap, hda7 ReiserFS (/home); hdb1: > FAT32 with datas > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://wwww.mandrakestore.com
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