I installed SuSE 9.1 Pro a few weeks ago, and everything started off great. After a few days, though, when I right-clicked for any reason, the system would slow down as it accessed the hard drive. Now, almost anything I do on KDE causes the hard drive to work overtime. It goes: chugga, chug, chug....two second delay...chugga, chug, chug....Finally, after 10 secs or so, it'll let me do what I was trying to do, but obviously that's WAY too long to have to wait. Incidentally, when I work in another WM, I don't experience this problem EXCEPT when I try to access KDE software, like Konqueror or one its games.

Does any SuSE/KDE expert here know what's causing this?

what are your machines specs? KDE is a memory hog, if you don't have enough RAM or swap, that may explain this. Another unfortunate thing with KDE apps is that when you run them in another WM they load a LOT of background processes that normally would be running in the KDE WM. This obviously also causes a large drain on resources.

There are plenty of things that could cause your problem, but memory is where i would start.

Memory shouldn't be the problem...I've got 512MB running on a Athlon XP 2600+. It's otherwise a very quick machine.

Although the default kde was decent, I noticed a significant increase in responsivenes when I upgraded to KDE 3.3. I'm alot happier with this version. It's easily upgradable, just get a kde ftp mirror with the latest 3.3 release, and update it through yast. This could be of help to you.

ok, i'll try that approach

Also try running top in a window and then do whatever caused KDE to hang, you should see at least the process that's causing it to show.

If it does this _only_ when doing something KDE-ish, do like someone else suggested, get the fixes or patches for it, KDE 3.3 is very stable and is less of a memory hog.

Or, use GNOME. (That ought to cause some lively discussions!!!)

Ross

hehehe....i'll go with the upgrade, thanks.