CPU resources weirdly high

[Willy Hamra]

I couldn't help but notice how games seemed more sluggish than usual
on my system
CPU 3.0 GHz with HT
RAM 1.5 GiB DDR2
VGA nVidia GeForce 7300 LE 256 MiB

games used to run blazing fast, but now, they're not
after watching htop for a while, i was intrigued by kget first. kget
runs at <90% most of the time, consuming all of the power of the first
CPU, then there is this other process that i couldn't get much info
about, called artsd .it also runs at high level, but does it for 5~10
seconds at a time, and rests for another 5~10 seconds. these 2
proceses are killing my system!
why would kget need such CPU usage? it's only a download manager!

and what is this artsd ?

using kubuntu hardy, with KDE 3.5.10 , and no desktop effects of any
kind running.

thanks in advance

-- 
Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computers and Billy Net.