Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1956 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

"Kai Ponte" <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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
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