Is it me or does this look abnormal when using Compiz Fusion in KDE v3.5.9 while idled? top - 01:11:19 up 2:20, 3 users, load average: 0.11, 0.09, 0.09 Tasks: 122 total, 2 running, 120 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 1.3%us, 3.0%sy, 0.7%ni, 95.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 1035332k total, 631816k used, 403516k free, 44472k buffers Swap: 2361512k total, 0k used, 2361512k free, 375876k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4483 ant 24 4 64088 44m 7032 S 6.0 4.4 7:24.40 compiz.real 4322 ant 24 4 38436 12m 8428 S 3.0 1.2 2:41.47 gkrellm 4214 root 20 0 79232 40m 8344 S 2.0 4.0 3:24.26 Xorg 2907 messageb 20 0 2616 952 696 S 0.7 0.1 0:00.78 dbus-daemon 4294 ant 20 0 33976 13m 10m S 0.7 1.3 0:01.24 kded 6094 ant 20 0 2392 1152 884 R 0.7 0.1 0:00.02 top 1 root 20 0 2100 724 616 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.94 init 2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd ... I am not using any special effects like snow, rain, etc. No videos, desktop screen savers, etc. Only GKreLLM should be animating visually. Is this normal for my CPU to be that high? My computer specifications can be found at http://alpha.zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/computers.txt (secondary/backup computer). Thank you in advance. :) -- "An ant can do more than an ox that is lying down." --unknown /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / E-mail: philpi at earthlink.net or ant at zimage.com ( )