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?

Thanks for your help.

walt

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Both virtuoso-t and nepomukservice are used by the indexing service in
KDE. The issue might be that you have added some files to your system
and KDE is still trying to index them. If that is not the case then go
into your KDE settings and disable file indexing, that should fix it. If
it doesn't then switch to GNOME or another desktop and see if the issue
persists.


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On 5/5/12 1:55 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?

Thanks for your help.

walt



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On Sat, 05 May 2012 10:55:17 -0700
wcj9996 <wcj9996@frontier.com> 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?

Malware, yes, in the fact that they are installed without your
knowledge/permission. Welcome to KDE. Master knows best.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> walt

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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




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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




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