kded4? hogging CPU :(

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 16 13:08:23 UTC 2009


Dear fellow testers,

I have my machine hogging CPU again :(, I run top and it shows a process called kded4?

What is going on?  

[olivares at riohigh ~]$ top




















top - 07:03:28 up 7 min,  4 users,  load average: 2.33, 1.81, 0.89
Tasks: 133 total,   2 running, 131 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 30.5%us, 69.5%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:    500724k total,   491860k used,     8864k free,    21532k buffers
Swap:  2100784k total,     5628k used,  2095156k free,   167648k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
 2980 olivares  20   0  151m  19m  14m R 84.6  3.9   2:25.38 kded4              
 3127 olivares  20   0  257m  64m  22m S  6.4 13.2   0:31.34 firefox            
 3264 olivares  20   0 67312  17m 9840 S  3.5  3.6   0:04.25 npviewer.bin       
 3050 olivares  20   0 32992 9680 7436 S  1.9  1.9   0:06.57 gkrellm            
 3380 olivares  20   0  2432 1072  836 R  1.6  0.2   0:00.32 top                
 2309 root      20   0  197m  41m 6272 S  1.3  8.4   1:32.48 Xorg               
 2018 root      20   0  3544  948  904 S  0.3  0.2   0:00.13 hald-addon-stor    
 3297 olivares  20   0 93116  19m  13m S  0.3  4.0   0:01.39 konsole            
    1 root      20   0  2012  608  560 S  0.0  0.1   0:02.98 init               
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 kthreadd           
    3 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0        
    4 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.46 ksoftirqd/0        
    5 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0         
    6 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 cpuset             
    7 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 events/0           
[olivares at riohigh ~]$ top                                                       
top - 07:03:34 up 7 min,  4 users,  load average: 2.22, 1.80, 0.89
Tasks: 133 total,   2 running, 131 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 31.3%us, 57.5%sy,  0.0%ni,  2.5%id,  8.1%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.5%si,  0.0%st
Mem:    500724k total,   491984k used,     8740k free,    21540k buffers
Swap:  2100784k total,     5628k used,  2095156k free,   167648k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
 2980 olivares  20   0  151m  19m  14m R 71.7  3.9   2:29.79 kded4              
 3127 olivares  20   0  257m  64m  22m S  8.1 13.2   0:31.69 firefox            
 3384 olivares  20   0  2428  948  728 R  6.5  0.2   0:00.09 top                
 3264 olivares  20   0 67312  17m 9840 S  3.3  3.6   0:04.45 npviewer.bin       
 2309 root      20   0  197m  41m 6272 S  1.6  8.4   1:32.69 Xorg               
 3050 olivares  20   0 32992 9680 7436 S  1.6  1.9   0:06.70 gkrellm            
    1 root      20   0  2012  608  560 S  0.0  0.1   0:02.98 init               
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 kthreadd           
    3 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0        
    4 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.46 ksoftirqd/0        
    5 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0         
    6 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 cpuset             
    7 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 events/0           
    8 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 work_on_cpu/0      
    9 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.08 khelper            
[olivares at riohigh ~]$ top                                                       
top - 07:03:47 up 7 min,  4 users,  load average: 1.95, 1.76, 0.89
Tasks: 133 total,   2 running, 131 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 31.2%us, 68.5%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.3%si,  0.0%st
Mem:    500724k total,   492356k used,     8368k free,    21556k buffers
Swap:  2100784k total,     5628k used,  2095156k free,   167676k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 2980 olivares  20   0  151m  19m  14m R 84.5  3.9   2:40.77 kded4
 3127 olivares  20   0  257m  64m  22m S  6.4 13.3   0:32.54 firefox
 3264 olivares  20   0 67312  17m 9840 S  3.2  3.6   0:04.91 npviewer.bin
 3050 olivares  20   0 32992 9680 7436 S  2.2  1.9   0:07.00 gkrellm
 3386 olivares  20   0  2432 1052  824 R  1.6  0.2   0:00.24 top
 2309 root      20   0  197m  41m 6272 S  1.3  8.4   1:33.02 Xorg
 3297 olivares  20   0 93116  19m  13m S  0.6  4.0   0:01.52 konsole
 3020 olivares  20   0  351m  37m  23m S  0.3  7.7   0:09.50 plasma
    1 root      20   0  2012  608  560 S  0.0  0.1   0:02.98 init
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 kthreadd
    3 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0
    4 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.46 ksoftirqd/0
    5 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0
    6 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 cpuset
    7 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 events/0
[olivares at riohigh ~]$



      




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