CPU resources weirdly high

[Willy Hamra]

2008/9/10 Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com>:
>
> 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
>

thnx, yes, amarok is running almost all of the time, but once i start
playing i stop it.
but kget keeps running in the background though. so basically, kget is
the culprit of all this slugishness, it's really weird, what CPU
intensive operations does a download manager require? as far as i
know, download managers has always been idle processes, doing nothing
but waiting for data to be received (you know, blazing fast data
transfer, 128 kbps :P)

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Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computers and Billy Net.