CPU resources weirdly high

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 22:39 +0300, Willy Hamra wrote:
> I couldn't help but notice how games seemed more sluggish than usual
> on my system
> CPU 3.0 GHz with HT
> RAM 1.5 GiB DDR2
> VGA nVidia GeForce 7300 LE 256 MiB
> 
> games used to run blazing fast, but now, they're not
> after watching htop for a while, i was intrigued by kget first. kget
> runs at <90% most of the time, consuming all of the power of the first
> CPU, then there is this other process that i couldn't get much info
> about, called artsd .it also runs at high level, but does it for 5~10
> seconds at a time, and rests for another 5~10 seconds. these 2
> proceses are killing my system!
> why would kget need such CPU usage? it's only a download manager!
> 
> and what is this artsd ?

It's the KDE audio system, ARTS, running as a daemon. (artsd) Ric
 
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