Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.6.0) OS: Linux Switching tracks in Amarok or bangarang causes kmix to use %90 CPU. Reproducible: Always
This smells very like the problems relating to saving mixer profiles. Can you confirm? (try checking to see if you have massive XML files in there and if killing kmix, trashing the files and restarting kmix solves the issues). See bug #264292
fixed, thanks! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 264292 ***
Great, thanks for letting me know. It'll likely resurface after some time, but I'll see about getting a more permanent solution in place before too long. And now you know the work around :)