dialog consuming ~80% cpu cycles

synorgy · 2007-12-25 22:07:41

Recently (as in the past few days), I have noted that my archlinux install is running much slower than normal. Today I noticed that my conky config is reporting 100% CPU usage (which I figured would account for the slow down), so I checked top. top is currently reporting that a process called 'dialog' is consuming a vast majority of my CPU cycles, but I can't seem to kill it (it seems to respawn, even after a killall -9)

Who owns this process and what can I do about it? Thanks for your time.

Mantaar · 2007-12-25 22:19:49

Strange. Could you post the output of ps auxf, so we can see which process this 'Dialog' belongs to?

(Take care that the command line arguments to the particular processes don't disclose any important personal information )

synorgy · 2007-12-25 22:25:42

The relevant output:

[bryan@myhost /]$ ps auxf |grep 12928
bryan    12928 78.9  0.0   3724  1024 ?        R    17:06  13:25  \_ /usr/bin/dialog --help-button --help-status --fixed-font --keep-window --help-label Help --backtitl
bryan    12985  0.0  0.0   3452   792 pts/2    S+   17:23   0:00      \_ grep 12928

(where 12928 is the pid of the 'dialog' process)
still baffles me...

Mantaar · 2007-12-25 22:40:12

Well, I actually wanted to find out about the process' parent, not its children

z0phi3l · 2007-12-25 22:53:05

I know it sounds stupid but have you rebooted your system? Might be a crashed program that isn't on screen

synorgy · 2007-12-25 22:58:46

I went ahead and rebooted, and the process is still running, but not at 80% CPU. It was spawned by iDeskTool which uses dialog to configure (you guessed it) iDesk.

All in all - I'm an idiot and didn't think to reboot without iDeskTool running. All's well. Thanks guys.

and the reason I didn't display the parent process was because there was no parent process shown (even without the grep)

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#1 2007-12-25 22:07:41

dialog consuming ~80% cpu cycles

#2 2007-12-25 22:19:49

Re: dialog consuming ~80% cpu cycles

#3 2007-12-25 22:25:42

Re: dialog consuming ~80% cpu cycles

#4 2007-12-25 22:40:12

Re: dialog consuming ~80% cpu cycles

#5 2007-12-25 22:53:05

Re: dialog consuming ~80% cpu cycles

#6 2007-12-25 22:58:46

Re: dialog consuming ~80% cpu cycles

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