Hi list,
there's something strange here on my Mandrake 8.0 box and try as i might i
can't find it to kill it! it seems to be a process of some sort that when
it runs it cripples my system making it impossible to get any work done.
what ever this is it shows up in kpm and top like this:
[kapm-idled]
however, it's anything but "idle". as i said it is crippling my system
when it runs. here is a bit from the top screen showing the information as
it's running:
10:57am up 20:30, 2 users, load average: 0.44, 1.48, 1.42
80 processes: 77 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 5.3% user, 20.5% system, 0.0% nice, 74.1% idle
Mem: 125600K av, 62400K used, 63200K free, 0K shrd, 892K
buff
Swap: 265032K av, 52372K used, 212660K free 29892K
cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
3 root 14 0 0 0 0 SW 40.3 0.0 4:36 kapm-idled
1486 root 14 0 48128 37M 4032 R 4.5 30.5 5:07 X
4468 mark 12 0 2916 2180 1936 R 1.5 1.7 0:01 kdeinit
1637 mark 9 0 3512 2604 2096 S 1.1 2.0 0:19 kicker
1610 mark 9 0 2684 1796 1632 S 0.3 1.4 0:28 kdeinit
4529 mark 11 0 952 940 716 R 0.3 0.7 0:01 top
1645 mark 9 0 3180 1732 1580 S 0.1 1.3 0:21 kdeinit
1 root 9 0 104 60 60 S 0.0 0.0 0:04 init
as you can see it runs as a root process but i can't find its origin to
kill the process. left to run long enough it will fill the swap space and
then the only way to recover from this is to reboot the system. This has
been going on since i installed Mdk 8.0 on this machine 7 days ago. AFter
rebooting the machine runs fine. Then, out of nowehere "kapm-idled" pops
up and efectively renders the machine useless until "it" decides to stop
running. "IF" it decides to stop running. Which it has on two seperate
occasions. That is not the norm though with this "diseased" mystery
process.
Could someone please tell me what this is and how to kill it once and for
all? i've attempted every way and manner available to me that i know of
that you would normally use to stop a process that has gotten away. All of
them have no affect on this one though.
Feel free to email me direct with any information if you so desire.
thanks,
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