Turns out every hung bash instance is taking around 13 to 17% of total processing power, with at least one required for the shell running emerge. Still recompiling KDE, down to the last significant package. Oh, and by the way, all of this has not fixed the key-handling problems. Sigh.

On a much happier note, finally have a go on Cinemon. Am setting up to work on it under Linux now, mostly just getting all the dependencies installed. Feels good to be working on it again. I hate leaving projects in the middle.