Very high broadband usage

The first month we got BT broadband was option 1 the 10GB package, I left my house for 2 weeks and the monitor was at around 6/7GB and with no one in the house and no one with access to it i came back to find it was now at 12GB, thought this was a bit odd...
Last month we upgraded to option 2 the 40GB package. Ended up watching lots of videos and things and by the end of the month it was at 45GB.
This month, it's 7 days in and the usage monitor is showing 12.87GB used, I haven't been doing anything other than browsing, no games, no videos, no downloads, nothing...
This surely cannot be correct and I'm still concerned about the first month when it hadn't been used by any one and it was still racking up the data.
One phone call said there was nothing BT could do to check, I think it's a bit odd that I have to pay for usage I haven't even used and for this month that it's so high already and I haven't even done anything!
Forgot to say I had a 20GB package a few years back and I practically used to live on my laptop, used to play xbox live for hours each day, watch a lot of videos, and download a hell of a lot of music and videos and I didn't exceed my limit once in 18 months..
Seems a bit odd to me...

If this is the first month you have gone over, the £5 for an extra unit of 5GB might be waived.
For more information visit www.bt.com/broadbandusagepolicy
The broadband usage monitor is accurate and is updated at 23:59 every night.
Uploads are also counted towards your 10GB allowance.
1) Make sure that you don't have any malware or virus on the computer.
2) Make sure your private Wifi network is encrypted otherwise other people might be suing it.
3) Make sure that there isn't a device in that is using the home that you didn't know was using the internet - Smart phones/portible devices can automatically connet to your wifi (if known) and can update software in the background without you knowing. Some devices will allow phone calls and texts to be recieved over wifi.
4) there are free usage meters that can be downloaded to see when and what is using the 10GB usage on your computer.
cheers
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unknown% vmstat
kthr      memory            page            disk          faults      cpu
r b w   swap free re mf pi po fr de sr cd s0 s1 s2   in   sy   cs us sy id
0 0 0 870888 450220 9 27 10 0 1 0 8 2 -0 -0 -0 595 1193 569 72 1 28
unknown% vmstat
kthr      memory            page            disk          faults      cpu
r b w   swap free re mf pi po fr de sr cd s0 s1 s2   in   sy   cs us sy id
0 0 0 870880 450204 9 27 10 0 1 0 8 2 -0 -0 -0 596 1193 569 72 1 28
unknown% vmstat
kthr      memory            page            disk          faults      cpu
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0 0 0 870828 450092 9 27 10 0 1 0 8 2 -0 -0 -0 596 1193 570 71 1 28
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2026 Kendall   124M   70M sleep   59    0   0:01:47 1.4% firefox-bin/7
1093 Kendall    85M   77M sleep   59    0   0:07:15 1.1% Xsun/1
1802 Kendall    60M   15M sleep   59    0   0:00:08 0.1% gnome-terminal/2
1301 Kendall    93M   23M sleep   49    0   0:00:30 0.1% java/14
1259 Kendall    53M   15M sleep   49    0   0:00:32 0.1% gaim/1
2133 Kendall 3312K 2740K cpu1    59    0   0:00:00 0.0% prstat/1
1276 Kendall    51M   12M sleep   59    0   0:00:11 0.0% gnome-netstatus/1
1247 Kendall    46M   10M sleep   59    0   0:00:06 0.0% metacity/1
1274 Kendall    51M   13M sleep   59    0   0:00:05 0.0% wnck-applet/1
1249 Kendall    56M   17M sleep   59    0   0:00:07 0.0% gnome-panel/1
1278 Kendall    48M 9240K sleep   59    0   0:00:05 0.0% mixer_applet2/1
1245 Kendall 9092K 3844K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% gnome-smproxy/1
1227 Kendall 8244K 4444K sleep   59    0   0:00:01 0.0% xscreensaver/1
1201 Kendall 4252K 1664K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% sdt_shell/1
1217 Kendall    55M   16M sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% gnome-session/1
   779 Kendall    47M 2208K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% gnome-volcheck/1
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1280 Kendall    47M 8904K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% notification-ar/1
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1262 Kendall    47M 2268K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% gnome-volcheck/1
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28963 Kendall 9100K 3792K sleep   59    0   0:00:03 0.0% gnome-smproxy/1
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*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

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#do a virus/malware check on your computer. If this doesn't fix it, proceed;
#disable all software running in the background that you don't want to have running in the background (in windows, this is done by pressing WINDOWS+R in your keyboard, typing "msconfig" (without the commas) and pressing enter. Now, under the "Startup" tab, you can uncheck the software you don't want, and reboot your system for changes to take effect. If you're unsure of what software you want running, ask someone with more experience). If this doesn't fix your issues with Firefox, proceed;
#check your firewall/antivirus/security suite for enabled functions/features that you don't want and/or may be conflicting with Firefox. You'll find that these features are most likely tied to Internet Security features, such as link scanners or URL checkers and the like. If you're not sure they are conflicting with Firefox, simply try to disable them to see whether or not that's true. As long as you don't browse the web with your antivirus completely off and your firewall completely turned off, there should be no problems. If this doesn't solve the issues, proceed to the following number;
#check your operating system security options, mainly advanced options that are not configured by default. While it's very unlikely that this may be the cause of the problem (after all, it's the last item on the list), it's remotely possible. If this doesn't work, proceed to the following point;
#update your modem/router software. There have been some reports that some modem/router software may cause Firefox and other browsers to loose performance and/or stability. If updating doesn't fix your issue, try other versions of the software, if possible. If you need support with this, contact your modem/router manufacturer. If this doesn't help, proceed;
#clean up your OS registry, using appropriate software. Make sure you've followed my instructions correctly, but if this all doesn't work, [http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles create a new Firefox profile] (this can be temporary, of course) and see if the issues persist. Report here the results, so we can help you further.

Very High Memory Usage

It never happened before and today it overloaded my PC so i had to force restart.
I use 2 keyword research applications. They start to shoot up to almost 600MB of RAM when i am researching keywords. When i minimize program after research, the memory usage drops to 32MB. When i restore window back, these 32MBs turn back into 600MB.
I tried downgrading Adobe Air to version 2.0.4 and that didn't help. Upgrading to the newest version didn't help.
What is the problem?

Hi Boris,
The memory usage is very dependent on the application and how it handles it's resources. Have you contacted the developers of the two applications to see if your findings are consistent with their testing? You mentioned that the memory footprint is the same between 2.0.2 and 2.5, do you know if it increased after 1.5.3?
Having the memory usage drop to a fraction of it's normal size when minimized is consistent with normal Windows behavior.
Thanks,
Chris

High Broadband usage

My usage jumped yesterday for no apparent reason - have talked to BT about it and they have said the usual change the passwords , monitor usage ... and their system is accurate.
I am on the 10GB package and the usage monitor went as follows 4 June 0.17/0.04 to 5 June 3.61/0.04 (rec'd/sent)
However this is the data from my HH3
Internet Connection Configuration
Connection Information
Connection time:
11 days, 15:34:40
Data Transmitted/Received (GB):
1.5 / 0.4
Broadband username:
[email protected]
Password:
Not configured
TCP/IP settings
Broadband network IP address:
86.148.47.38
Default gateway:
172.16.15.135
Primary DNS:
213.120.234.22
Secondary DNS:
213.120.234.34
Disconnect
Software version 4.7.5.1.83.8.94.1.37 (Type A) | Time and date 18:39 06/06/14
Obviously the data from the hub contradicts what BT say.
I don't particularly want to change my wireless password as to me my connection is not being used by anyone else because that usage would be reflected in the hub stats.
I would point out that I can use BT WiFi a lot and that it does rack up 1GB quite easily but that should not appear on the usage monitor - it doesn't appear on the hub stats.
BT are supposed to be monitoring the usage for the next 3 days and will ring me next Tuesday.
However should I continue to use BT WiFi during that period for consistency or not and see what happens?
Finally I am also posting here so that I have a record of what's happened.

conrad wrote:
I am aware of the resetting but would point out that the total usage was 4.2GB ( based on connection time) with the Hub showing 1.5Gb sent? and 0.4Gb rec'd ie the reset occurred well before the 4.3GB limit.
Having just looked at the hub data is it showing 1.5GB sent ?? If so that is not what the BT monitor is showing @ 6 June it is only 0.06GB.
I am taking regular readings of both the hub and NetWorx - fortunately I have only one device that can be connected to the internet. The 6 June monitor stats were 3.69/0.06 total of 3.75GB.
What is likely to be the case is that the screen print of the Hub data you have shown is incorrect in that the values should be 1.5 GB sent and 4.7 GB received (0.4 + 4.3) . This gives a total of 6.2 GB usage for the 11 days 15 Hours usage. Assuming that your usage for the end of May is 0.55 GB (as you have stated) and we subtract this from the 6.2GB, we have the usage recorded by the HUb for June as 5.65Gb. This is more than what is recorded by the monitor.
What the HUb records should always be equal or greater than what is recorded on the monitor.
Without regular Hub stats it is difficult to reconcile Monitor values with what the Hub is showing.

Very high cpu usage - no programs running!!

Hi guys
Was really hoping someone could help me with this problem.
There is a constant 50-60% cpu usage and the laptop is getting superhot 80c and obviously sending the fan into overkill 6000rpm+.
But what is confusing is that is like this all the time!! even when there are no programs running at all!!
and even worse in activity monitor there is no process which can account for that cpu activity/heat. nothing is clocking in at more than 9%.
I have done repair permissions, used onyx to clean up the system, use clean my mac, rebuilt the index in spotlight and nothing works. the second you switch on and log on the problems start.
I cant think of anything else to do apart from doing a complete reinstall which is obviously something i would like to do avoid so any ideas to why this is happening? and how is it possible there can be cpu activity that is not accounted for?
thanks for any help/advice you guys can provide

hi Roam
yeah everything is disconnected, switched off airport as well and then rebooted
on restart with nothing but terminal open here is the readout from
Processes: 57 total, 2 running, 55 sleeping, 230 threads 10:46:22
Load Avg: 1.10, 0.36, 0.14 CPU usage: 36.40% user, 19.90% sys, 43.68% idle
SharedLibs: 6212K resident, 5708K data, 0B linkedit.
MemRegions: 5325 total, 166M resident, 15M private, 121M shared.
PhysMem: 446M wired, 248M active, 234M inactive, 927M used, 1120M free.
VM: 135G vsize, 1036M framework vsize, 36917(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts.
Networks: packets: 40/6356B in, 40/7044B out. Disks: 16108/740M read, 6057/104M written.
PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #WQ #POR #MRE RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VPRVT VSIZE PGRP
262 mdworker 0.1 00:00.24 3 1 50- 73- 2448K- 10M 15M- 33M- 2411M- 262
254 mdworker 0.0 00:00.18 3 1 50 66 1672K 11M 7488K 31M 2410M 254
240 top 2.8 00:01.88 1/1 0 27 35 1376K 248K 1940K 17M 2378M 240
222 bash 0.0 00:00.00 1 0 17 26 396K 248K 1056K 17M 2378M 222
217 login 0.0 00:00.03 1 0 22 56 520K 248K 2756K 18M 2379M 217
213 Terminal 1.6 00:03.10 6 1 120 127 4212K 20M 25M 34M 2703M 213
145 ntpd 0.0 00:00.00 1 0 14 24 88K 940K 308K 156K 2378M 17
144 activitymoni 0.0 00:01.43 1 0 23 37 724K 244K 1248K 28M 2389M 144
140 cvmsComp_x86 0.0 00:00.04 1 0 18 35 1708K 10M 6208K 18M 2392M 140
132 System Event 0.0 00:00.23 2 1 72 114 2700K 9180K 17M 31M 2678M 132
128 Smart Scroll 0.0 00:00.18 2 1 95- 104- 3080K- 13M 15M- 41M- 2695M- 128
126 CCacheServer 0.0 00:00.01 2 2 35 54 668K 248K 1668K 41M 2401M 126
119- Little Snitc 0.0 00:00.15 3 1 99 90 1448K 15M 4640K 31M 896M 119
118- Little Snitc 0.0 00:00.12 3 1 90 87 1276K 14M 4388K 31M 894M 118
114 SIMBL Agent 0.0 00:00.12 2 1 84 167 2796K 11M 12M 304M 11G 114
113 AirPort Base 0.0 00:00.05 4 1 84 87 1588K 14M 11M 31M 2685M 113
107 UserEventAge 0.1 00:00.29 3 1 157 108 2268K 2092K 11M 41M 2403M 107
102 pboard 0.0 00:00.00 1 0 22 38 404K 252K 872K 18M 2379M 102
101 fontd 1.2 00:02.36 3 2 235+ 134+ 7796K- 2036K+ 9492K+ 35M- 2428M+ 101
98 Finder 0.0 00:01.08 8 3 175 178 5152K 21M 31M 27M 2707M 98
97 SystemUIServ 0.0 00:00.96 3 1 222 227 8240K 27M 32M 44M 2722M 97
96 Dock 0.5 00:01.03 4 2 121 181 3244K 26M 23M 17M 2707M 96
92 launchd 1.0 00:00.47 2 0 468+ 61+ 528K 488K+ 996K+ 38M 2399M+ 92
86 coreaudiod 0.0 00:00.09 3 1 133 77 1356K 448K 6432K 31M 2393M 86
78 cvmsComp_x86 0.0 00:00.19 1 0 18 35 1804K 10M 6404K 18M 2392M 78
76 launchd 0.0 00:00.00 2 0 37 47 316K 432K 708K 38M 2399M 76
75 cvmsServ 0.0 00:00.00 2 0 45 29 336K 248K 808K 19M 2381M 75
72- Nalpeirond6 0.0 00:00.01 1 0 14 25 112K 240K 372K 17M 586M 71
64 ocspd 0.0 00:00.01 1 0 23 27 532K 304K 1280K 17M 2378M 64
61 socketfilter 0.0 00:00.11 3 1 47 51 1500K 8228K 2904K 29M 2403M 61
57 WindowServer 0.9 00:03.50 4 1 191 417- 5720K+ 12M- 25M 40M- 2718M- 57
48 coreservices 4.2 00:02.74 7 4 291+ 162- 2884K 11M 13M+ 17M- 2406M- 48
47 distnoted 1.0 00:00.50 4 3 62 41 764K 240K 1240K 30M 2390M 47
46 taskgated 0.7 00:00.33 6 0 50 35 644K 244K 1216K 29M 2389M 46
45- lsd 0.0 00:00.13 2 1 56 65 832K 10M 2396K 30M 615M 45
44- qmasterd 0.0 00:00.11 2 1 31 139 1632K 9036K 6212K 29M 622M 44
41 autofsd 0.0 00:00.00 2 1 29 37 480K 244K 984K 28M 2388M 41
40 blued 0.0 00:00.12 2 1 63 44 1132K 8116K 4240K 28M 2402M 40
34 dynamic_page 0.0 00:00.00 1 0 20 24 308K 240K 788K 17M 2378M 34
32 fseventsd 0.1 00:00.17 12 1 95 64 1236K 244K 1748K 33M 2395M 32
31 hidd 0.0 00:00.95 4 2 70 48 768K 264K 1524K 30M 2391M 31
29 KernelEventA 0.0 00:00.00 4 2 33 42 524K 244K 1020K 30M 2390M 29
28 loginwindow 0.3 00:00.55 2 1 230 116 2340K 13M 8460K 25M 2677M 28
27 mDNSResponde 0.0 00:00.04 3 1 50 54 900K 280K 1784K 40M 2400M 27
Plus sorry should have written this on first msg but the most recent change i did to my computer before the problems started was change the Icons for Finder. I have changed it back, was using candybar but still no change. anyway to complete reset icons for finder without having to reinstall?

Unusually high broadband usage

We have been having problems with our broadband usuage since March of this year, when we nearly went over the 40Gb. Then in April it suddenly shot up and went over our 40Gb allowance, up to 64GB. We have not changed the way we use the internet and we have never gone over our 40 Gb allowance in the past. According to BT you should be able to browse the internet for 120hrs with 40Gb!! I have now been in touch with BT on three occasions and it has not yet been resolved. We were advised to stop using the internet which we did only using it to check e-mails or the My BT usuage page and on using the internet for a total time of 30 mins in that one week, the BT usuage monitor said we had used 11GB!! I have now starting checking our home hub and looking to see what devices are connected to our Wi Fi and I have deleted any devices not recognised. However I noticed tonight that there are two devices back on which I don't recognise and have tried to delete but can't. I would really appreciate some help with this matter as I am reluctant to use the interent at present as it seems to use a lot more GB than it should.

cgd20 wrote:
We have been having problems with our broadband usuage since March of this year, when we nearly went over the 40Gb. Then in April it suddenly shot up and went over our 40Gb allowance, up to 64GB. We have not changed the way we use the internet and we have never gone over our 40 Gb allowance in the past. According to BT you should be able to browse the internet for 120hrs with 40Gb!! I have now been in touch with BT on three occasions and it has not yet been resolved. We were advised to stop using the internet which we did only using it to check e-mails or the My BT usuage page and on using the internet for a total time of 30 mins in that one week, the BT usuage monitor said we had used 11GB!! I have now starting checking our home hub and looking to see what devices are connected to our Wi Fi and I have deleted any devices not recognised. However I noticed tonight that there are two devices back on which I don't recognise and have tried to delete but can't. I would really appreciate some help with this matter as I am reluctant to use the interent at present as it seems to use a lot more GB than it should.
Hi, welcome to the forum.
There have been a few similar posts to this recently. There are far more experienced posters who may be able to assist you further but I would be interested to know if you are using broadband TV - Netflix or similar? also I'm wondering about this cloud storage thing & if this uses monthly allowances?
You mention 2 devices that are not recognised. I do not use a home hub router but a netgear device - where I can secure wireless connections down to a mac address in a trusted device list. Not sure if this can be done with the HH.
Hope that you soon get this resolved.
S.

Chromium + Flash + Pandora = very high CPU usage

I know Pandora is far from the most efficient software out there, but in Chromium it takes roughly 1.6 GHz of CPU cycles, compared to 260 MHz in Firefox. Same version of Flash (64 bit preview). I was hoping to switch from Firefox to Chromium as it seems to be faster overall, but draining my laptop's battery like this is a show-stopper.
chromium 10.0.648.205-1
xorg-server 1.10.1-1
xf86-video-ati 6.14.1-1
Firefox 4.0 (64-bit) from upstream
Adobe Flash 10.3 d162 (64-bit preview)
With Chromium:
Cn Avg residency P-states (frequencies)
C0 (cpu running) (45.4%) 2.00 Ghz 100.0%
polling 0.4ms ( 0.1%) 1.60 Ghz 0.0%
C1 mwait 0.2ms (26.9%) 1200 Mhz 0.0%
C4 mwait 0.2ms (27.6%)
Top causes for wakeups:
65.4% (1557.0) [radeon] <interrupt>
12.5% (297.2) [kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick
12.4% (295.4) kworker/0:0
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3609 john 20 0 455m 131m 20m S 50.2 3.3 1:40.29 chromium
3151 root 20 0 115m 32m 15m R 30.6 0.8 1:06.56 X
With Firefox:
Cn Avg residency P-states (frequencies)
C0 (cpu running) (19.6%) 2.00 Ghz 0.0%
polling 2.3ms ( 0.0%) 1.60 Ghz 0.0%
C1 mwait 0.7ms ( 5.9%) 1200 Mhz 100.0%
C4 mwait 1.0ms (74.4%)
Top causes for wakeups:
29.8% (192.6) [kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick
26.3% (170.1) kworker/0:0
15.6% (100.8) firefox-bin
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3860 john 20 0 709m 220m 37m S 22.0 5.6 0:29.94 firefox-bin
3151 root 20 0 110m 25m 8472 S 1.7 0.6 1:55.23 X
Last edited by jlindgren (2011-04-18 23:25:06)

The almost exact 100 wakeups per second makes me wonder if Pandora tries to redraw constantly but gets throttled to 100 FPS in Firefox.
Edit: Okay, I guess I should have done a little more research before posting here; seems to be a known problem with Pandora and Chromium (on Windows and Mac also (!)):
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issue … l?id=38794
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issue … l?id=77691
http://superuser.com/questions/149230/w … -cpu-usage
http://hintsforums.macworld.com/showthread.php?p=617863
Last edited by jlindgren (2011-04-19 01:42:57)

DW CS3 very high CPU usage

Just installed DW CS3, installation went normally without any
problems. However when I start the program, DreamWeaver.exe
constantly occupies between 80 and 100% of the CPU resources - even
when minimized.
The same happens on 2 XP SP2 systems, one 3GHz 1GB RAM where
I have DW8 installed, and one 1.7GHz dual-core 2GB RAM laptop with
a fresh Windows installation and no other Adobe/Macromedia stuff
installed.
I tried to repair the installation, to uninstall / reinstall
(with a reboot after every operation) , but the problem remains.
Is this a known issue, probably with a known fix?
Thanks

Glad to hear you figured it out. Can you explain in more
detail exactly
what you did? Is this the Win XP setting you're talking
about?:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875351
"You can view the DEP configuration for your computer in
System in Control
Panel. To do this, follow these steps:
1. Click Start, click Run, type sysdm.cpl, and then click OK.
2. Click the Advanced tab, and then under Performance, click
Settings.
3. In the Performance Options dialog box, click the Data
Execution
Prevention tab.
4. Note if Turn on DEP for essential Windows programs and
services only or
Turn on DEP for all programs and services except those I
select: is
selected. "
If I go to the Data Execution Prevention tab, it's set to
"Turn on DEP for
essential Windows programs and services only", which I'm
assuming is the
default setting, since I haven't touched this before. What
was your DEP set
to?
Thanks,
David Alcala
Adobe Product Support
"harpo_" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:f0a6rd$2eh$[email protected]..
> hmm.. fixed it by excluding dreamweaver.exe from the so
called 'data
> execution prevention'

MacBook Pro very high overall RAM usage

Hi, I'm using a late 2012 13" MacBook Pro with 8GB of RAM and a dual core i7 and I've been experiencing very high RAM usage for the last couple of weeks even though I'm not really doing anything. Here's a activity monitor screenshot
As you can see I'm only really using Chrome and Sublime Text (3). Twitter and Outlook are also open but don't take up that much (Twitter maybe but that just seems to be badly optimised and it's all gone when I close it).
So, is this normal?
Thanks in a

This is normal. The two most important things in that screenshot are 'Swap Used' (0 means you never ran out of RAM) and the Memory Pressure graph (everything green = good). For the rest the OS knows to handle RAM,

KDE 4.7: very slow and high disk usage

Since upgrade to KDE 4.7 on my i686 laptop, my system behaves weirdly. I noticed a slow down caused by a very high disk usage: when the HDD spins the cpu usage reported by the CPU monitor plasmoid is very high (~ 50%), while top reports a very small CPU load. Another strange symptom is that, when I try to close the session, the system freezes for about 15 seconds before the logout/shutdown/restart dialog window appears, again with HDD spinning furiously. If I exit the dialog window and then try to close session again it works smoothly, so I think some caching is at work at second try.
This is very painful since it slows down my workflow. Since now I tried to:
- disable nepomuk, strigi and all that using the nepomukcontroller plasmoid
- disable compositing
- delete .kde folder
- uninstall and reinstall all kde packages
without any benefit. On the same laptop I have dual boot with a 64 bit arch installation, which does not have the same problem, nor has it my 64 bit desktop pc.
Does anyone have similar issues? I don't understand what is it that makes the HDD spin so much, nor how to eventually track it down (are there som HDD usage profiling utilities?). Moreover, why top and CPU usage plasmoid report so different CPU usage stats?
I'm very confused, so any help will be greatly appreciated.

Although I'm not having any of the issues as Snack, I have found KDE 4.7.0 to be a very horrible release. In fact, I'm sick and tired of the KDE release notes bragging about killing thousands of bugs each release, when in actuality the first few revisions of each stable release are horrible. When I first upgraded, I ran into at least four really nasty bugs. Although I've worked around some of them, it left a really sour taste in my mouth. Here is what I've experienced:
1.) With a new user or fresh install, there is no wallpaper by default, even if I install kde-wallpapers before I log in, it makes no difference.
2.) Sometimes kwin will crash during log out.
3.) Worse yet, if I exit a full screen game, it will more than likely crash Kwin. This is a problem on my laptop (which has intel video) and not my desktop (which has nvidia video). If I don't remember to disable desktop effects before opening a game, I may run into a problem.
4.) Although my performance is good, it's not great. I would think a laptop with a Core i5 processor and 8GB of RAM would run faster than it is.
I have tested XFCE for a bit, and I do like it alot. However, with XFCE I am unable to browse Samba shares, and that is a huge problem. In addition, I find KDE's applications to be much better than what ships with XFCE, but I question whether they're worth the performance hit. I really love Kate, Gwenview, Digikam, and Amarok. I know you can install those in XFCE, but they feel out of place and then my desktop pretty much becomes a mutt. Not only that, but KDE is full featured, whereas XFCE is not. It's like I have to choose between a stable desktop or a desktop with full of bugs.
I hope that KDE 4.7.1 fixes everything, but historically it's usually the 4.x.2 release that really does the trick.

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