why is kdm running at all?

[Jeffrey Gray]

You are greping the your grep.  That is not the actual process

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 8:45 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 07/17/2011 06:27 PM, Bill Walton wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 8:15 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> On 07/17/2011 04:18 PM, Bill Walton wrote:
>>>> I've got an ec2 instance running 8.04 LTS.  It started life as an ami
>>>> that Eric Hammond created / contributed.  TOP is showing kdm taking
>>>> 95-100% cpu.  Why is kdm running at all on a server that can't be
>>>> accessed via anything but ssh?   Much less talking that much cpu?  Is
>>>> there something I can do to reduce / eliminate the usage by kdm?
>>>
>>> Don't know. You could always ask on:
>>> http://alestic.com/support
>>
>> Agreed.  Should have thought of that.  Just posted the question there.
>>
>> But let me ask it differently.  Is there a reason that kdm on Hardy
>> would be running at a high level of cpu utilization, or any
>> utilization at all, when there is nothing but an ssh terminal
>> accessing it for display purposes?  Does kdm serve uses other than
>> terminal / screen output that might explain this?
>
> Not that I'm aware of.
> $ ps aux | grep kdm
> gg        6795  0.0  0.0   4008   524 pts/2    D+   18:35   0:00 grep
> --color=auto kdm
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> the odd part is that the process PID changes each time:
> $ ps auw | grep kdm
> gg        6878  0.0  0.0   4008   752 pts/2    S+   18:43   0:00 grep
> --color=auto kdm
>
> I seem to recall that there was a thread sometime back that indicated
> that this process isn't the actual 'kdm' but is an x process of sorts.
> I'll see if I can find it.
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