KDE became a sort of sloth

[Temlakos]

On 09/04/2014 07:33 AM, Ahmad Samir wrote:
> On 03/09/14 16:51, Walter Cazzola wrote:
>> Dear Fedora Experts,
>> I've a Dell Precision m6500 with i7 and 1GB NVIDIA FX3800M and it is
>> running a Fedora 20 since it was distributed without any trouble.
>>
>> Two days ago I have updated my system through yum and since then KDE is
>> really slow to start (Today it tooks 8 minutes to be usable again) and
>> sometimes becomes unresponsive for a while.
>>
>> The period of freezing coincide with some HD activities (or at least
>> with the HD indicator light turned on without blinking (or blinking so
>> fast that I can't discern it). I've tried to see with top if I have some
>> suspect process running but everything is as usual.
>>
>> Also the KDE session the system restores is pretty naïve with a couple
>> of konsoles, an instance of firefox and a couple of okulars open.
>> Nothing that, in my view, can justify the change.
>>
>
> Did you try disabling session restore?
>
> [...]
>

That's an interesting problem.

KDE itself hasn't ever caused me anyh problem. Though I recently 
upgraded to a 2009-vintage Intel Core 2 Quad system with 8 GB of RAM. 
What sort of hardware is the OP running K on? (Remember: K is the 
Windows analogue.)

Temlakos