Hello! I've noticed that sometimes system (Athlon 1000, 256 MB RAM, 600 MB Swap) get completely busy, apparently it's a random behaviour. But now I've noticed that there's always a kmail session opened. It happens that Kmail leave "orphan" processes even when I sotly-close the program. Now I'm sure that if I "kill -HUP" the orphans, then system comes back to the normality. Here you are an example:
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START \ claudio 2723 48.4 71.7 515244 183492 ? R 11:36 \ TIME COMMAND 10:43 kdeinit: kio_imap4 Does it happen just to me? Thanks, Claudio PS) [claudio@monster claudio]$ rpm -q kdenetwork kdenetwork-2.2.2-16mdk -- Claudio Panichi System/Network Admin at Dept. of Physics "Tor Vergata" University and INFN - Sec. "Roma II" Remote System is: LINUX Mandrake