KDE apps launch lasts forever

[Krisztian Mark Szentes <office@produktivIT.com>]

Hi

For some 2 weeks since the last apt-get upgrade (unstable) any time I 
launch an application within KDE, the CPU utilization goes to 100% and 
stays there 5-20 seconds. Especially konqueror and kfm are prone to this, 
but any other application lasts a lot longer to launch than it used to be. 
It seems that it does not matter whether kdeinit starts the application or 
it is called directly (like kfloppy) - it all lasts at least 5 seconds on 
an otherwise fast machine (512 Mbyte RAM, 1 GHz Duron). The more processes 
start (like kio_thumbnail or kio_file), the longer it takes to start up. 
Opening up let's say, five separate konqueror windows with images to 
display hampers the machine for minutes.

ii  kdebase        3.1.2-1        KDE Base metapackage
ii  kdebase-bin    3.1.2-1        KDE Base (binaries)
ii  kdebase-data   3.1.2-1        KDE Base (shared data)
and all other KDE packages rae 3.1.2-1 as well.

Any hints?

Cheers

Mark