I have a problem, that has only started recently, where occasionally, kicker will start to use 100% cpu. I can see this, as I run KSim, showing the cpu usage, and then when it's starts maxing out on one cpu, I'll run top. BTW This is a dual cpu setup.

I've never noticed it happen when I can see the desktop, and it's active. It's always when I come out of a screen save.

Is there any way to see what's causing kicker to "go crazy", or any way to stop it.

I've tried killing it, and this works, although I then lose the Task Bar, which makes the system kinda difficult to use, so I usually just restart X/KDE.

BTW This is with KDE 3.5.4 running on a Slack 11 system.

Cheers.

Have you customized kicker with any applets? If so, remove those and try again to duplicate.

Not really. The only "change" I've made was to change "Hidden=true" to Hidden=false" for KSim in ksim.desktop. Nothing else.

Cheers.

OK, this is still happening to me. But, I've narrowed it down a little.

It looks like it's KSim that *is* the problem. Once the CPU starts to "burn", if I remove the KSim from the KDE Panel, the CPU use drops. I can add KSim straight back in, and everything runs OK again. For a while LOL

Any ideas why KSim might suddenly, and randomly, start soaking up the CPU.

Cheers,
Eddie