No it has absolutely nothing to do with KDE or KDM because I'm using it too and the problem is also here. This is definitely kernel related. I'm currently running 2.6.20-8.4
-- adds/removes same device many times a second causing high loads and extremally slow performance https://launchpad.net/bugs/81915 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs