"Kai Ponte"
I was just trying to do a few things on my laptop (centrino duo 2GHz/2GB RAM/160G 7200RPM HDD) and noticed things were running really slow. I couldn't update web pages, my CD ripping went way slow, and NetBeans was taking forever to load an app.
I hit CTRL+ESC to see what was going on and noticed a process was taking up 78% of system resources and 36% of user resources. I killed it and things got instantly better.
The process was zmd update-status. What's that? I googled it, thinking it might be the cursed Zen Updater, but I know I removed zmd-daemon.
Are you sure you removed the package zmd? If you did, then the helper should not run at all since it's only called from zmd.
I wonder if it could be this?
http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/ZMD/ZMD7.1/helpers/update-status
What could this be and how do I get rid of it?
Did you remove the complete zmd pattern in YaST? The helpers are in the package libzypp-zmd-backend - and those are only called from zmd itself. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform/openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126