Apparently, though unproven, at 20:43 on Sunday 15 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly:
> > I don't recall having this issue with KDE3 so maybe it is something they > > are working on. I did notice the other day that I had only a couple > > after the openrc upgrade. I don't know if one has anything to do with > > the other tho. I also did some KDE updates as well. > > Sorry I should have been clearer: > > I woke up the machine and noticed the fan was racing. Top showed these > two being the culprits. I logged out of X and back on a console they > were still running wild. I had to kill them manually to calm things down. > > When out of X in the console I seem to recall all other KDE processes had > terminated. FWIW, I have the same thing occasionally, also on wake-up after suspend to RAM. In my case, something in the kdepim/akonadi/nepomuk/virtuoso stack seems to be the underlying culprit - one of those apps is hogging cpu time and kdeinit4/knotify are the ones that block the most hence they show up in top. I tried various things involving re-merging stuffs, none of which helped. Then I figured maybe the mail indexer really wanted to do something valid, so I let it be and let it do whatever it wanted overnight. Since then the runaway process problem hasn't happened again. Perhaps coincidence, perhaps not. Maybe you could try the same? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
