fedora 8 unknown process "exe"

[Joshua Andrews]

Brian Pepple wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 12:33 -0800, Joshua Andrews wrote:
>   
>> Just curious about a process that shows up in top as exe--it uses a fair 
>> amount of processor time and killing it does not seem to effect 
>> anything. I am wondering what it is-and where it is.
>>
>> `ps auxwwf` does not list anything named exe.
>>     
>
> It's Pulse Audio.
>
> /B
>   
Weird!

I guess I don't have a clue about pulse audio, I am running KDE desktop 
and xmms did not seem phased at all by killing the process.

I wonder what starts the process since it seems to be just using energy 
for nothing.

Thanks

- Joshua