ran kdeinit in a console and usage went down to near 15% system total. not sure what happened. output below.
kdeinit kdeinit: Shutting down running client. --------------------------------- It looks like dcopserver is already running. If you are sure that it is not already running, remove /home/araknyd/.DCOPserver_COSMIC-XPRESS__0 and start dcopserver again. --------------------------------- KDE Daemon (kded) already running. kbuildsycoca running... Reusing existing ksycoca -- kdeinit4: plasma-desktop takes 60-90% of CPU https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/419054 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs