much of KDE freezes for 20 seconds (includes strace output)

[Rex Dieter]

Hans Ecke wrote:
>> What is your graphics cards and what driver do you use for it?
> 
> GeForce 7600 GS, using proprietary nvidia driver.
> 
> On another machine I'm using GeForce 7800 GTX, same driver, with no 
> problem.
> 
> FWIW, I seriously doubt its a graphics card issue. Or a hardware issue 
> in general.

You'd be surprised.

Is desktop-effects or compositing enabled?
Have you tried reproducing without nvidia driver and/or using vesa driver?

-- Rex