This is my first post on this forum, thought that I might could get some help, now and in the future, .

My CPU usage will not go below around 55%, according to the cpu wiget. I think that this is due to a KDE 4.2.1 upgrade. Here is what $top gives me:

top - 16:22:55 up 9 min, 2 users, load average: 1.36, 1.32, 0.68
Tasks: 99 total, 3 running, 96 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 34.8%us, 18.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 46.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2073268k total, 698532k used, 1374736k free, 14572k buffers
Swap: 2281220k total, 0k used, 2281220k free, 384848k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2973 preston 20 0 80996 19m 14m R 99 1.0 7:17.37 kded4
2931 root 20 0 331m 53m 4288 S 3 2.6 0:28.89 X
2999 preston 20 0 272m 38m 22m S 3 1.9 0:17.47 plasma
3076 preston 20 0 224m 95m 21m S 1 4.7 0:50.88 firefox

Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks.

I rebooted and everything seems fine now. I did reboot after the update but had not logged into X yet. So perhaps I needed to log into KDE then reboot then log back in? Anyway everything seems to be fine.

If you have experienced no further issues, could you please mark this thread as solved? Thanks in advance.