Re: [orca-list] OT: The problem with unwanted background processes in Gutsy gets more serious

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 04:51:27PM +0200, Hermann wrote:
> perhaps you remember my reports about background processes starting in
> Gutsy at every first system start up.
> Since the last 2 or 3 days, it becomes more and more serious and
> annoying:

I won't quote your top output, since it's interspersed with terminal escape
sequences that it would be better not to post: next time, try, for example,
top -b -n 10 > /tmp/top

However, reading that output shows the proportion of time which your CPU
spends waiting for the completion of i/o to be very high and increasing
rapidly. It isn't clear from the information that you've provided which
process or processes are responsible, and I'm not sure which command would
show this - perhaps the status field in ps would indicate which processes are
in waiting state, and might help to track down the offender.