Looks like it's just you, I don't have that and didn't get such a bugreport (yet).

Can you run kfm in gdb, and Ctrl-Z it when it starts doing that, then bt
to know what it's doing ?

On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 09:55:32AM -0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> Is it just me and my Alpha or has kfm got this annoying new feature in
> 1.1.1:
> 
> Whenever I switch to my home directory (at startup, from a web page,
> from another directory, reload) kfm eats up all CPU it can get for
> about one minute ... and one minute is a _very_ long time on a DEC
> Alpha 500. During this time KDE is almost unusable because kfm is
> very unresponsive (can't launch an application from the start menu,
> from the panel or a root icon).
> 
> Uwe
> 
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