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preacher:
Hello all. This is a technical question for you linux heads. I was on my pc last night when I noticed that my hard drive light was on and when I typed in "uptime" I recieved some crazy load averages. load average: 3.30, 3.07, 2.95. Anyway I type in "top" to see what processes are being the resource hogs and im surprised as hell to see that one copy of vi is using 49% of system resources, while another one is using 44%. I typed in "kill pid", but it wouldnt work on the runaway processes, and I had to "kill -9 pid" them. Anyone ever had a similar problem? Right now everything is back to normal.

Calum:
my sister has just installed linux 2.4 with KDE recently, and she noticed her hard drive gets thrashed, she asked me and i could not tell her why, i also have noticed this happening sometimes, with my scenario, the % of CPU use slowly creeps up, but i usually get irritated and kill the process before it gets to about 20%...

what is the story?

TheQuirk:
same. but it's usually two of them ,taking 34% or so. it doesn't happened to me in KDE3, though. Maybe there's a connection?

preacher:
Funny thing is that at the time I wasnt even using X.

TheQuirk:
that's pretty odd

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