[plug] KDE process needs manual termination

[Mark Saxon]

Jim Householder wrote:

> Hi
>
> Can anyone shed light on this?
>
> 1001:~:$ ps aux
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> <snip>
> jim       4268 92.2  1.1 25212 12304 ?       R    11:16 633:18 
> kdeinit: kded
>
> I'm not sure which application was responsible for starting this 
> process, but I stopped everything that was identified in the task bar. 
> All appeared to terminate ok, but this process was left over.
>
Jim,

I am running MDK 10.1 official.  This process is started by kdeinit  and 
if your running KDE desktop
kded should be running all the time. Have not had it run away with the 
cpu like you though.
The KDE site has a pretty good descrition of the KDE start up process 
and what the services do.

http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/startup.php#kded


> kill -9 4286 is required to get rid of it.  I seem to be getting it at 
> least once a day.  A fresh install (MDK 10.1 Official) has made no 
> difference.
>
> TIA
> Jim
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