Eggcups eating CPU?

sid1950 · #1 7th February 2007, 03:27 PM

I am using FC6 & Gnome on an AMD Duron 1.6GHz desktop. Started using gkrellm recently, and noticed today that the CPU seemed to be running high.

Screen shot of System monitor

and head of top:

Code:

top - 15:21:34 up  6:24,  1 user,  load average: 4.26, 4.48, 4.28
Tasks: 159 total,   2 running, 155 sleeping,   0 stopped,   2 zombie
Cpu(s): 41.4%us, 34.9%sy,  2.5%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.3%hi, 21.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:    190252k total,   187264k used,     2988k free,     1344k buffers
Swap:  1028120k total,   186304k used,   841816k free,    52780k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                 
 3094 sadiq     16   0 44568 3580 3500 S 49.1  1.9 189:05.07 eggcups                                 
 2145 root      15   0  1788  636  564 S 27.3  0.3  74:56.95 rpc.statd                               
10657 sadiq     16   0 81984  14m  11m S 10.6  7.7   1:17.07 gnome-system-mo                         
 2972 root      15   0  115m  17m 6548 S  5.7  9.6  48:15.88 Xorg                                    
 6506 root      39  19 13472  772  764 R  2.5  0.4   8:22.82 rpmq                                    
10957 sadiq     15   0 40752  13m 9304 S  1.6  7.0   0:00.97 gnome-terminal                          
 3096 sadiq     15   0 34268 5780 4476 S  1.1  3.0   6:30.30 gkrellm                                 
 3076 sadiq     15   0 17472 6680 5420 S  0.8  3.5   0:15.89 metacity                                
10984 sadiq     15   0  2288 1044  788 R  0.5  0.5   0:00.17 top                                     
 2199 dbus      18   0  2840  772  532 S  0.3  0.4   0:02.59 dbus-daemon                             
 2648 haldaemo  15   0  5584 1708 1252 S  0.3  0.9   0:04.65 hald

What is "eggcups"? I also notice two processes labelled "zombie". Is this bad?

Jman · #2 9th February 2007, 02:30 AM

eggcups is a print notification thing I believe. Killing it shouldn't hurt anything.

zombie processes are dead and waiting for parent.

sid1950 · #3 10th February 2007, 10:59 AM

Thanks. I found the only way to stop it was a reboot. I used ps to get the PPID, and kill would not work even as root. Since the reboot it has behaved OK.

I now know what to look for if I see any more zombies!