High resource usage for Konq, nspluginviewer and Xorg...

[Kevin Kofler]

Linuxguy123 wrote:
> I know that the new KDE framework is better in a lot of ways, but I
> can't help but notice that when viewing a fairly simple web page, the
> combination of konqueror, nspluginviewer and Xorg is using 20-25% of my
> available CPU resource. It used to use about 10%.  Usage seems to go up
> with every KDE iteration.
> 
> I find this a bit troubling.
> 
> I am not running a lightweight machine.  My laptop has a T8100 processor
> with 4 GB of RAM and an nVidia GeForce 8800M GTS video card.  I DO NOT
> have any desktop effects enabled and I am using the proprietary nVidia
> driver.

There's your first problem. And as nspluginviewer is one of the offenders, I 
guess you're using the proprietary Flash as well. There's your second 
problem.

Proprietary software is eating your CPU, don't blame KDE!

        Kevin Kofler