kdeinit runaway...

[Mark Weaver]

this is interesting and troubling... I'm sitting here with only a 
terminal running, thunderbird and firefox, and the CPU monitor is 
spiked. So I open top and this is what I'm seeing:

Tasks:  90 total,   2 running,  88 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 78.5% us, 21.2% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.3% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:    255084k total,   253840k used,     1244k free,    28372k buffers
Swap:   514040k total,    47708k used,   466332k free,    92540k cached

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  4457 mdw1982   25   0 43136  26m  34m R 97.3 10.6  54:54.55 kdeinit
  2627 root      15   0  160m  13m 144m S  1.0  5.6  18:57.90 X
  1446 root      16   0     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   0:20.53 kjournald
  2963 mdw1982   15   0 32916  14m  27m S  0.3  5.8   3:17.67 kdeinit
  4347 mdw1982   15   0  101m  35m  28m S  0.3 14.4   1:28.42 firefox-bin
  4831 mdw1982   16   0 30792  14m  26m S  0.3  5.7   0:00.97 kdeinit

what the heck is going on with kdeinit?

-- 
Mark

"If you have found a very wise man, then you've found
a man that at one time was an idiot and lived long enough
to learn from his own stupidity."