[arch-general] cpu usage very high after update...

[Preston C.]

My cpu monitor is almost reading 100%, right after I updated today. It
was a very large update because I hadn't updated in about a month.
Here is what "$top" gives me:


top - 16:22:55 up 9 min,  2 users,  load average: 1.36, 1.32, 0.68
Tasks:  99 total,   3 running,  96 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 34.8%us, 18.6%sy,  0.0%ni, 46.6%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   2073268k total,   698532k used,  1374736k free,    14572k buffers
Swap:  2281220k total,        0k used,  2281220k free,   384848k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 2973 preston   20   0 80996  19m  14m R   99  1.0   7:17.37 kded4
 2931 root      20   0  331m  53m 4288 S    3  2.6   0:28.89 X
 2999 preston   20   0  272m  38m  22m S    3  1.9   0:17.47 plasma
 3076 preston   20   0  224m  95m  21m S    1  4.7   0:50.88 firefox
    1 root      20   0  1688  576  512 S    0  0.0   0:00.71 init
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd
    3 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0
    4 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 ksoftirqd/0
    5 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0
    6 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/1
    7 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1
    8 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/1
    9 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 events/0
   10 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 events/1
   11 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper
   12 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kstop/0
   13 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kstop/1
   14 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 kblockd/0
   15 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kblockd/1
   16 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid
   17 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpi_notify
   18 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 kseriod
   19 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush
   20 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 pdflush
   21 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kswapd0
   22 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0
   23 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/1
   32 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 ata/0
   33 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ata/1
   34 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ata_aux
   38 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
   39 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_1

Thanks for any help,
Preston