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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:25:38 -0500
From: Marc Wiz <marc@wiz.com>
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Subject: Re: Processes???
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 01:15:29PM +0200, CARTER Anthony wrote:
> Can someone have a look at the dump below. It is just tops with a couple of 
> ps's.  What I don't get is process 47917 and 47860 at the very top...I did a 
> ps on these and you can see that at the bottom. Any ideas what these can be? 
> They take loads of processor time and have been running for an eon...Or tell 
> me how to find out WHAT is using this pid...

I have had a problem like this recently.  

It turned to be a Konqueror process that was waiting on I/O (network connection)to deliver a web page.

When I clicked on "stop" the cpu usage on those processes went down.

Marc

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