Processes running out of control

Daniel Botting zen78553 at zen.co.uk
Thu May 4 07:40:18 UTC 2006


Dear all,

This is my first post to this list, but I have been subscribed for a 
good 3+ months.

It has sorted out many problems I have encountered as well, so I thank 
you all.

I am regular-ish as I can be member of man-lug, work allowing as I work 
shifts.

Anyhow I was running Breezy and I has Super Karamba installed. I had the 
sysmon theme running and it picked up that my RAM was disappearing at an 
insane rate without hardly anything running.

I had e-mailed the man-lug list and people had responded but it didnot 
seem to solve the problem.

I thus elected to start again and downloaded Dapper and did a fresh 
install. I have to admit I am impressed with Dapper, it looks cleaner 
and seems to load faster, but a bit buggy.

I have installed Firefox, Thunderbird both from mozilla.org and Flock.

Even as I type this e-mail I am getting warning that Kicker and 
Thunderbird-bin are slowing my machine down. When I had Flock running I 
was getting messages that Flock-bin was slowing my machine down. The 
messages are pretty much constant, is it something I have done wrong....

Any suggestions highly appreciated, please see output of processes 
currently running, I'm not normally one for pasting massive outputs.

dan at hyperion:~$ ps aux
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         1  0.0  0.1   1568   532 ?        S    06:51   0:01 init [2]
root         2  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        SN   06:51   0:00 
[ksoftirqd/0]
root         3  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    06:51   0:00 
[watchdog/0]
root         4  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   06:51   0:00 [events/0]
root         5  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   06:51   0:00 [khelper]
root         6  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   06:51   0:00 [kthread]
root         8  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   06:51   0:00 [kblockd/0]
root         9  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   06:51   0:00 [kacpid]
root       118  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    06:51   0:00 [pdflush]
root       119  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    06:51   0:00 [pdflush]
root       121  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   06:51   0:00 [aio/0]
root       120  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    06:51   0:00 [kswapd0]
root       708  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   06:51   0:00 [kseriod]
root      1700  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   06:51   0:00 [ata/0]
root      1703  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   06:51   0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
root      1704  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   06:51   0:00 [scsi_eh_1]
root      1793  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   06:51   0:00 [khubd]
root      1889  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    06:51   0:00 [kjournald]
root      2116  0.0  0.1   2432  1020 ?        S<s  06:51   0:00 
/sbin/udevd --d
root      2898  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    06:51   0:00 
[shpchpd_event]
root      2982  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   06:51   0:00 
[kgameportd]
root      3940  0.0  0.0   1680   496 ?        Ss   06:51   0:00 /bin/dd 
bs 1 if
klog      3942  0.0  0.2   2408  1332 ?        Ss   06:51   0:00 
/sbin/klogd -P
hplip     3967  0.0  0.1  12868   924 ?        Ssl  06:51   0:00 
/usr/sbin/hpiod
hplip     3970  0.0  0.9   9404  4680 ?        S    06:51   0:00 python 
/usr/sbi
104       4036  0.0  0.1   2188   824 ?        Ss   06:51   0:00 
/usr/bin/dbus-d
108       4051  0.0  1.0   6832  5424 ?        Ss   06:51   0:01 
/usr/sbin/hald
root      4052  0.0  0.1   2720   968 ?        S    06:51   0:00 hald-runner
108       4057  0.0  0.1   2004   788 ?        S    06:51   0:00 
/usr/lib/hal/ha
108       4111  0.0  0.1   2000   788 ?        S    06:51   0:00 
/usr/lib/hal/ha
108       4118  0.0  0.1   2004   812 ?        S    06:51   0:00 
/usr/lib/hal/ha
108       4119  0.0  0.1   2004   816 ?        S    06:51   0:00 
/usr/lib/hal/ha
root      4364  0.0  0.1   1968   704 ?        Ss   06:51   0:00 hcid: 
processin
root      4369  0.0  0.0   1612   452 ?        Ss   06:51   0:00 
/usr/sbin/sdpd
root      4379  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   06:51   0:00 [krfcommd]
root      4392  0.0  0.0   1624   296 ?        Ss   06:51   0:00 
/sbin/mdadm -F
daemon    4426  0.0  0.0   1800   392 ?        Ss   06:51   0:00 
/usr/sbin/atd
root      4439  0.0  0.1   2116   840 ?        Ss   06:51   0:00 
/usr/sbin/cron
root      4784  0.0  0.1   2740   640 ?        Ss   06:51   0:00 
/usr/bin/kdm
root      4808  2.6  2.9  19988 15404 tty7     Rs+  06:51   2:39 
/usr/X11R6/bin/
root      4819  0.0  0.2   3672  1356 ?        S    06:51   0:00 -:0
root      4840  0.0  0.0   1560   492 tty1     Ss+  06:51   0:00 
/sbin/getty 384
root      4841  0.0  0.0   1564   496 tty2     Ss+  06:51   0:00 
/sbin/getty 384
root      4842  0.0  0.0   1560   492 tty3     Ss+  06:51   0:00 
/sbin/getty 384
root      4843  0.0  0.0   1560   492 tty4     Ss+  06:51   0:00 
/sbin/getty 384
root      4844  0.0  0.0   1560   488 tty5     Ss+  06:51   0:00 
/sbin/getty 384
root      4845  0.0  0.0   1560   492 tty6     Ss+  06:51   0:00 
/sbin/getty 384
dan       4865  0.0  0.3   4176  1680 ?        Ss   06:52   0:00 /bin/sh 
/usr/bi
dan       4901  0.0  0.1   4328   688 ?        Ss   06:52   0:00 
/usr/bin/ssh-ag
dan       4904  0.0  0.1   2712   648 ?        S    06:52   0:00 
/usr/bin/dbus-l
dan       4905  0.0  0.0   2080   424 ?        Ss   06:52   0:00 
dbus-daemon --f
dan       4934  0.0  0.8  25136  4132 ?        Ss   06:52   0:00 kdeinit 
Running
dan       4937  0.0  0.5  24592  3080 ?        S    06:52   0:00 
dcopserver [kde
dan       4939  0.0  1.6  25780  8724 ?        S    06:52   0:00 
klauncher [kdei
dan       4941  0.0  3.0  31764 15756 ?        S    06:52   0:02 kded 
[kdeinit]
dan       4943  0.0  0.3   3012  1780 ?        S    06:52   0:00 
/usr/lib/gamin/
dan       4951  0.0  2.0  24200 10532 ?        S    06:52   0:03 
/usr/bin/artsd
dan       4953  0.0  1.8  25820  9784 ?        S    06:52   0:00 kaccess 
[kdeini
dan       4958  0.0  0.0   1548   340 ?        S    06:52   0:00 
kwrapper ksmser
dan       4960  0.0  1.9  25900 10220 ?        S    06:52   0:00 
ksmserver [kdei
dan       4961  0.0  2.5  28824 13272 ?        S    06:52   0:05 kwin 
[kdeinit]
dan       4963  0.1  5.1  42868 26604 ?        S    06:52   0:08 
kdesktop [kdein
dan       4965  1.1  4.0  35360 21136 ?        R    06:52   1:08 kicker 
[kdeinit
dan       4968  0.0  2.3  27168 12016 ?        S    06:52   0:00 
kbluetoothd --d
dan       4970  0.0  2.2  26724 11568 ?        S    06:52   0:00 klipper 
[kdeini
dan       4975  0.0  2.5  29036 13228 ?        S    06:52   0:02 
adept_notifier
dan       4977  0.0  2.9  30892 14976 ?        S    06:52   0:01 
kio_uiserver [k
dan       4988  0.0  2.9  30028 15016 ?        S    06:52   0:00 kmix 
[kdeinit]
dan       4989  0.0  2.8  27884 14848 ?        S    06:52   0:00 
katapult -sessi
dan       4991  0.0  2.5  33476 13240 ?        S    06:52   0:00 knotify 
[kdeini
syslog    5342  0.0  0.1   1768   712 ?        SNs  06:57   0:00 
/sbin/syslogd -
dan       5626  0.0  2.2  24976 11764 ?        S    07:06   0:00 kdesu 
-u root -
dan       5628  0.0  0.6  16636  3116 ?        S    07:06   0:00 
/usr/bin/kdesud
root      5630  0.0  0.0   1420   296 pts/1    Ss+  07:06   0:00 
/usr/bin/kdesu_
root      5632  0.0  0.1   2468   980 pts/2    Ss+  07:06   0:00 
/usr/bin/sudo -
root      7045  0.0  0.2   2156  1192 ?        Ss   07:13   0:00 
/usr/sbin/acpid
cupsys    7126  0.0  0.3   4188  1744 ?        Ss   07:13   0:00 
/usr/sbin/cupsd
dan       9918  0.0  2.2  24976 11636 ?        S    07:14   0:00 kdesu 
-u root -
root      9920  0.0  0.0   1424   300 pts/4    Ss+  07:14   0:00 
/usr/bin/kdesu_
root      9922  0.0  0.1   2464   976 pts/5    Ss+  07:14   0:00 
/usr/bin/sudo -
dan      10206  0.0  1.5  25404  7888 ?        S    07:46   0:00 
kio_file [kdein
dan      10304  0.0  0.2   3676  1432 ?        S    07:52   0:00 /bin/sh 
/home/d
dan      10307  0.0  0.3   4224  1720 ?        S    07:52   0:00 /bin/sh 
/home/d
dan      10312  1.2  9.5 113972 49032 ?        Sl   07:52   0:27 
/home/dan/thund
dan      10615  5.8  3.0  31672 15492 ?        R    08:30   0:00 konsole 
[kdeini
dan      10616  2.1  0.6   5604  3296 pts/3    Ss   08:30   0:00 /bin/bash
dan      10634  0.0  0.1   2392  1016 pts/3    R+   08:30   0:00 ps aux






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