Packagekitd KDE Issue

[Stephen Morris]

Hi,
     I having a little difficulty understanding the R+W graph display 
from IOTOP, and what the difference between a graph displayed by dots 
and graphs displayed by a solid block.
     Having said that though, the thrashing of my hard disk for several 
minutes after the KDE desktop displays when logging in from SDDM, seems 
to be being caused by Packagekitd. How do I determine what it is doing 
and why? When the storage light goes out indicating cessation of 
activity, Packagekitd disappears from the top of the iotop display when 
the sort order is set to descending on the R+W graph column.

regards,
Steve