Version: (using KDE KDE 3.4.2) Installed from: Fedora RPMs Compiler: gcc 4.0.1 OS: Linux Prolog: I used to browse FTP sites with konqueror, make multiple selections there, drug-n-drop them into console's "wget -N" (because I care about timestamps). I enjoyed it - selecting with mouse or shift-arrows worked fast-n-smooth. Main story: Recently I enabled proxy via proxy configuration URL. Selecting just a few items on any FTP site takes pretty much forever. It's basically unusable. So I fired up top to see who eats CPU - it was kded. It is actually spectacular to see how it struggles while I drag the mouse over the filenames trying to select. Interestingly, proxy was probably not even used, because I was never authenticated. Epilog: I turned off proxy option. Just like that (no need to restart) I enjoy my life again, but I kinda need my proxy.
I'm running KDE 3.4.2 in Mandriva 2006, AMD64 version (x86_64). As soon as KDE starts, kded runs up the cpu to 70-90% in cycles. Apps start very slowly. I have plenty of memory and virtually no swap is used. Doing a "dcop kded" I get: KDebug KDirNotify-1 KDirNotify-2 KDirNotify-3 KDirNotify-4 MainApplication-Interface dnssdwatcher katd kbuildsycoca kded ksycoca kwalletd kwrited mdvdirnotify mediamanager networkstatus qt/kded remotedirnotify systemdirnotify I have the equivalent system (same kde version and services running) on my Pentium M laptop but kded is well-behaved on it.
"katd" is the culprit. Disable it, uninstall it or upgrade to a version that doesn't consume that much CPU. Mandriva should never have shipped it in pre-alpha stage.
This is CRAP. Comment #1 just highjacked my original bug with something which has NOTHING to do with my problem, then comment #2 happily "resolved" the irrelevant issue. kded still hogs CPU with PROXY connections... I don't know how, I doubt that it should.