Well I don't know if this is because i tried prereleased, kde, but when i compared my Gnome 2.4.1 to kde 3.2 when encoding a video with the same script I get 9 fps with kde and 27 fps with Gnome. I was just wondering can a desktop environment use up that much processing.

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Later ak

Yes it can. Type "top" on a shell, and see what the processes are consuming. On Linux, you can also use "pstree".

-kwag