> konqueror doesn't use threads for me (on i386.)
   
   It's not konqueror that eats all the cycles but some kdeinit processes
   which are just some sort of wrappers for KDE components, services and so
   on. Konqueror only triggers it by trying to run them.


yes.  but none of them seem to use threads... at least i haven't
observed that yet.


.mrg.