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Hello everyone,

I installed mint 8 Kde Ce x64 and then updated with KDE 4.4.
Everything went well for about a week.
Now the system is very slow. I see that the 2 CPUs (Athlon 64 6400 +) are always committed to approximately 50% even when the system does nothing.
If I look in System Monitor I cannot find jobs that use so much of the cpu.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Pito wrote:I installed mint 8 Kde Ce x64 and then updated with KDE 4.4.
Now the system is very slow. I see that the 2 CPUs (Athlon 64 6400 +) are always committed to approximately 50% even when the system does nothing. If I look in System Monitor I cannot find jobs that use so much of the cpu.

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A bit more context data is needed: system hardware, software
--how much RAM, what is active when you notice these slowdowns, what are you doing, are you busy streaming flash video for example (youtube )

I installed mint 8 Kde Ce x64 and then updated with KDE 4.4
Was the update made via the Mint system repositories as an update, or in some other manner.

If I look in System Monitor I cannot find jobs that use so much of the cpu.
Do you mean you don't notice any process that is taking so much of the application space (CPU utilization/memory )

I don't know if this is available in the KDE environment /OS release...
--In a terminal, check

• inxi -F
  --OS detected device list
• lspci
  --another way of looking at the device list
  free -m
  --amount of free RAM/buffers available in MB

Monitor system resources..
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=770644
Watch for system daemons that are always running. On your system, which are they?, and can you find a way to optimize them (possibly not running some daemons, if they are really not needed by your operating style But just be careful!

Are you running any disk indexing software
--I personally find no benefit with these types of applications and always De-index (do not use) hard drive indexing, which only helps for the occasional hard drive (system search ) for some long forgotten data

• Strigi
• Nepomuk

Ok,

I found the solution:
The dropbox application! If I kill it all is ok!