On Friday 03 August 2007 10:36:27 pm Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> "Kai Ponte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I was just trying to do a few things on my laptop (centrino duo
> > 2GHz/2GB RAM/160G 7200RPM HDD) and noticed things were running really
> > slow. I couldn't update web pages, my CD ripping went way slow, and
> > NetBeans was taking forever to load an app.
> >
> > I hit CTRL+ESC to see what was going on and noticed a process was
> > taking up 78% of system resources and 36% of user resources.   I
> > killed it and things got instantly better.
> >
> > The process was zmd update-status.  What's that?  I googled it,
> > thinking it might be the cursed Zen Updater, but I know I removed
> > zmd-daemon.
>
> Are you sure you removed the package zmd?  If you did, then the helper
> should not run at all since it's only called from zmd.
>
> > I wonder if it could be this?
> >
> > http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/ZMD/ZMD7.1/helpers/update-status
> >
> > What could this be and how do I get rid of it?
>
> Did you remove the complete zmd pattern in YaST?  The helpers are in the
> package libzypp-zmd-backend - and those are only called from zmd itself.
>
> Andreas

http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:How_to_remove_ZMD_in_OpenSUSE_10.2

Follow those directions, your 10.2 will run much better :o)

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