I'm running kde 3.2.1 under gentoo. Whenever my internet connection drops (cable modem) me entire desktop slows to a crawl. If I click on a button it takes a couple of minutes for the app to open (whereas with internet active it took seconds). This happened to me under RedHat where I've installed 3.2 from rpm's as well as under gentoo, compiled from source.
Am I missing anything obvious?