All, OS 11.2 KDE from the stable repo (KDE 4.2.2) I was semi-screwing around and opened my trash in Dolphin. I saw a few old directories I had "moved to trash" some time ago. They were relatively simple trees, but likely had a thousand or so files in the subdirs. For whatever reason, I right click deleted them from trash. My poor machine almost came to a stand still after a few minutes. I had to cntr-alt-F2 to get a new text console up and login. Even that took a minute or so for it to ask me for my password. I ran top and it showed kio_trash using 700MB of RAM. Seems a bit excessive for what it does. And obviously I swapping furiously. "ps -ef| grep kio_trash" showed dozens of programs running, but only 3 of them were actually kio_trash. For the others kio_trash was in the command args somewhere. So I did "ps -ef | grep kio_trash | less" and identified the instance of kio_trash that had started when I was messing with my trash. I did a simple kill of it. After a minute or two, my system was usable again. I'm not real anxious to try this again to see if its repeatable. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer CNN/TruTV Aired Forensic Imaging Demo - http://insession.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/23/how-computer-evidence-gets-retriev... The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org