this is interesting and troubling... I'm sitting here with only a
terminal running, thunderbird and firefox, and the CPU monitor is
spiked. So I open top and this is what I'm seeing:
Tasks: 90 total, 2 running, 88 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 78.5% us, 21.2% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.3% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 255084k total, 253840k used, 1244k free, 28372k buffers
Swap: 514040k total, 47708k used, 466332k free, 92540k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
4457 mdw1982 25 0 43136 26m 34m R 97.3 10.6 54:54.55 kdeinit
2627 root 15 0 160m 13m 144m S 1.0 5.6 18:57.90 X
1446 root 16 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:20.53 kjournald
2963 mdw1982 15 0 32916 14m 27m S 0.3 5.8 3:17.67 kdeinit
4347 mdw1982 15 0 101m 35m 28m S 0.3 14.4 1:28.42 firefox-bin
4831 mdw1982 16 0 30792 14m 26m S 0.3 5.7 0:00.97 kdeinit
what the heck is going on with kdeinit?
--
Mark
"If you have found a very wise man, then you've found
a man that at one time was an idiot and lived long enough
to learn from his own stupidity."