Scott Presnell wrote
> 
> Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:
> > 
> > After terminating KDE and running XWindows using the twm windows manager
> > things started to improve dramatically. System load is now < .20
> > when idle - see below.
> > 
> > load averages:  0.18,  0.20,  0.18                            07:59:20
> > 34 processes:  1 running, 33 sleeping
> > CPU:  0.5% user,  0.0% nice,  0.5% system,  0.0% interrupt, 99.0% idle
> > Memory: 15M Act 944K Inact 296K Wired 9176K Free 4K Swap 97M Swap free
> > 
> > I still don't know what causes KDE to place such a high load onto the
> > system and my only hope is that this may improve on next release of
> > KDE.
> > 
> 
> I'm running kde-1.1.1 under 1.3.2: kde seems no different than when I was
> running the pre 1.0 release. (the address book code for kdebase doesn't
> assemble with the 1.3.x assembler, but otherwise it's a stock kdebase 
> install - compiled by hand, not a package).
> 
> Xserver version is:
> 
> XFree86 Version 3.3.3 / X Window System
> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
> Release Date: November 13 1998
> 
> SVGA server driving a Riva TNT chipset.
> 
> With just the screen saver active, my load is:
> 
>  8:49AM  up 2 days, 21:54, 2 users, load averages: 0.32, 0.38, 0.35
> 
> What in KDE was getting the lion's share of the time/memory?
> 
> 	- Scott (srp@zgi.com)

ok, here it is...:

The culprits are maudio and kaudio. Each of them will increase system load
reading by 1. The system load settled to around 0.18 after killing the
offending processes.

Appl.		Load
--------------------
KDE-1.1		2.2	running KDE
- maudio	1.2	killed maudio process
- kaudio	0.18	killed kaudio process
--------------------


cheerio Berndt
-- 
Name	: Berndt Josef Wulf
E-Mail	: wulf@ping.net.au
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