[Cialug] process hog

dave at visionary.com dave at visionary.com
Tue Jan 3 23:37:23 CST 2006


That's possibly the "kat" process - a thing that's supposed to "index your
files". I've never found those things useful in any OS. There was
something similar that used to be part of MS Office that would bring your
system to a crawl...

As root, just type "urpme kat" to remove it.

-dc

On Tue, Jan 3, 2006, Dan Hockey <icepuck2k at mchsi.com> said:

> I'm running mandriva 2k6 and here lately a process showed up named kded 
> and its hogging from anywhere 88-97% cpu use. I can kill it and 
> everything seems to work fine afterwards. What is it used for and can I 
> kill it for good?
> -dh
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