I have run across an interesting problem in SuSE8.1... not sure how to properly fix it. I am doing some web development using Quanta (the version provided on the SuSE8.1 disks). After working on various pages over several hours, I noticed my CPU load was very high, and system response was getting worse and worse. I figured the kernel was off doing some housekeeping and stopped working for a while. Came back, and CPU load was still maxed out. I messed around with process IDs and killing a few here and there to see if it made a difference. I ended up restarting to see how that affected things. Hmmm CPU load back to zero. I went back to work in Quanta, and within a couple hours the same thing again. After sitting idle to 6 hours *overnight) top reports this: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 104 processes: 83 sleeping, 21 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 18.0% user, 81.9% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle Mem: 709320K av, 686880K used, 22440K free, 0K shrd, 59600K buff Swap: 1052248K av, 3480K used, 1048768K free 455888K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 2276 ccornell 25 0 15292 12M 10348 R 17.8 1.7 115:57 kdeinit 2344 ccornell 25 0 19288 16M 10984 R 17.8 2.3 110:16 kdeinit 2665 ccornell 25 0 14884 11M 10348 R 17.6 1.7 85:18 kdeinit 2218 ccornell 25 0 15352 12M 10348 R 14.9 1.7 129:52 kdeinit 2776 ccornell 25 0 15648 12M 10960 R 14.9 1.8 76:25 kdeinit 2858 ccornell 25 0 13704 10M 9580 R 14.9 1.5 74:06 kdeinit ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I cannot kill (either in top, or in a terminal with -9 option) the kdeinit processes, and they will not stop doing whatever it is they are doing. CPU load for system ranges from 80% to 100%. I could logout/restart to clean up.. but I would rather undertand what is going on here. Anyone have any ideas why this is happening? Anyone else experience this? C.