[kde-linux] Why is kded taking 98.6% of my CPU?

[Felix Miata]

Van Snyder wrote:
 
> Why is kded taking 98.1% of my CPU?  Here's the top line from
> "top" (with some blanks removed):
 
>  6778 vsnyder 25 0 28760 12m 10m R 98.1 0.6 1396:36 kdeinit
 
> Here's the output from "ps -ef | grep 6778" (with some blanks removed):
 
> vsnyder 6778 1 16 Jul26 ? 23:16:50 kdeinit: kded
 
> I have KDE version "3.3.1-3.10 Red Hat," running in "Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux WS release 4 (Nahant Update 1)"
 
> What does kded do, anyway?  If I kill it, I get my CPU back, and nothing
> appears to have gone wrong.

This seems to be all anyone using Mandriva knows at this point:
http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13415
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