[François Pinard]
Strangely, whenever the `xterm' program in UTF-8 mode (either using the `-u8' option, or having UTF-8 as part of the LANG environment variable), X goes wild and trashes (responds more and more slowly), consuming all the available CPU. Killing `xterm' recovers the usual X pace. This is repeatable at will here. I wonder if others could reproduce this problem. I'm using the YOU-downloaded NVidia driver, if it matters.
My solution was first to use `mlterm' instead of `xterm', but I did not quickly find out how to select the font I wanted. So, I recompiled and installed `rxvt-unicode' from source, and all is perfect since I use it.
[Sid Boyce]
On x86_64, it's kded that's pushing to 99%. I've reported this to bugs.kde.org. A great site to view if you have KDE problems and the place to report bugs, account needs to be created in order to be able to report bugs.
So, it has to be a different problem, as I do not run KDE here, and there is no such `kded' in the process table. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca