CPU resources weirdly high

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 12:01 +0300, Willy Hamra wrote:
> 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)

I would hazard a guess that Kget is what's running in the background to
dnload the content for Amarok. 

This may be worth a shot, try turning off "fade-out" in Configure
Amarok / playback. That should kill kget off faster when you shut down,
as it's still peddling. Ric

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