CPU resources weirdly high

[Willy Hamra]

2008/9/11 Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com>:
>
> 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
>

maybe you misunderstood, they both use high resources, but kget got
nothing to do with amarok, all my music files are local on the HD, and
kget's only job now is downloading intrepid alpha5, and it consumes a
hell lot of CPU while downloading, the moment i pause the download,
it's CPU usage drops to nil.

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