[ale] something is eating my cpu?!

[Sean Kilpatrick]

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I could use a little help.
Running RH 9.0; Something has suddenly started eating up my
CPU cycles. But when I run top, this is what I see, which makes
no sense at all:

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23:04:02  up 2 days,  6:59,  4 users,  load average: 1.11, 1.41, 1.67
78 processes: 73 sleeping, 5 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  50.8% user  49.1% system   0.0% nice   0.0% iowait   0.0% idle
Mem:   513608k av,  457268k used,   56340k free,       0k shrd,  124900k 
buff
                    356884k actv,   10160k in_d,    7088k in_c
Swap: 1060208k av,    5308k used, 1054900k free                  195096k 
cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
 4771 root      25   0  1044 1044   804 R    95.4  0.2 308:08   0 top
 5405 kilpatms  15   0 19956  19M 13164 S     1.7  3.8   4:02   0 kdeinit
 5276 root      15   0  276M  20M  4156 S     1.3  4.0   0:16   0 X
 5391 kilpatms  15   0  5508 5508  4164 R     1.1  1.0   3:03   0 artsd

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It would seem obvious that top is NOT eating up 95% of the CPU cycles.

But I have no idea how to even begin trying to figure out what is really
going on.

I am going to shut down and reboot and see if that clears things up, but
I really would like to discover what is going on here.

Sean

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