kwin pegs my cpu

[David Fox]

Something seems amiss. I have compiz-fusion working just fine on this
box, an AMD 64 dual-core cpu and NVIDIA 6100 using the 169.12 nvidia
driver from the repositories on HH.

I started compiz the regular way ($ compiz -- replace and emerald
--replace) and compiz is working well. There was a minor glitch that
I've noticed before and thought I wouldn't be able to solve : the text
on the screen is unreadable, which pretty much ruled out running
compiz. What good are the wobbly windows if I can't see the text in
windows, I thought. But I discovered that all I need to do is do a
ctrl-alt-f1 and then an alt-f7 to restore the screen to "normal".

I wonder if doing just that would make kwin use upwards of 94% of cpu.
That in itself doesn't seem plausible, and since kwin has been
"replaced" by the other window managers, why does it still need to
run? Apart from the basic stuff, like kicker, and the regular kde
window management stuff. Those should only be using up cpu when they
are active.

Anyway to keep this from happening? I'd like to use the power of my
new cpus, not let them just sit sucking cycles (well, I do run genome
at home).

I'm going to try doing a kill -1 on kwin now, to see if that helps.

No, that didn't seem to work, now it's using 99% of cpu.

Had to kill -9 the bloody thing :(.