100% CPU

[Basil Chupin]

On 06/05/12 06:49, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 05/05/2012 01:55 PM, wcj9996 wrote:
>> Hello:
>>
>> I am running 10.04 on an AMD-64 CPU. I have been noticing a slowdown on
>> occasion for several months. System Monitor shows 100% CPU and more
>> network activity than I would expect. This occurs when Firefox and
>> Thunderbird are running. Running 'top' shows 'virtuoso-t' taking 46.9%
>> of CPU and two instances of 'nepomukservices' taking 18% and 15% of CPU.
>>
>> Are these malware of some kind?
>
> Nepomuk is sorta, although it is included with a KDE install. It'll 
> eat your cpu until it's done cataloging everything on your machine for 
> hours, to make it easy to hand over all evidence to the FBI.
>
> I dumped KDE when I tried to remove nepomuk with synaptic. It popped 
> up and said it would have to remove all traces of KDE and it's 
> desktop. I replied "Hell yeah.." and savagely hit the ENTER key with a 
> sneer ...I haven't used KDE since. I won't have my desktop bound to 
> something I happen to loathe and I'll have nothing to do with a 
> mindset that goes "My Way Or The Highway" with me. T
>
> here is no earthly reason to have a desktop search rule my preferred 
> install. It should be an added option for the user and nothing more 
> than that.
>
> There are maybe ten people on Earth, and a semi-sentient frozen gas on 
> the surface of Titan, that uses Nepomuk. The gas is considered a 
> criminal by his/her/its kind and is in hiding, his/her/its real 
> whereabouts are unknown. But, he/she/it is all over the Internet, 
> posting as the user "anonymous". :) Ric

You can simply disable nepomuk in the System Settings menu - as I have 
it disabled.

BC