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System slowing down

Hi
I have a Suse 10.2 On a Compaq nc8430 (dual cpu!!) and the system is slowing down every time i open vmware-player, vmware workstation, superkaramba or the zen-update manager, when it trys to find out the software dependencies of the soft to update. Dma is activated, but the cpu is 95-100% used.
Somebody can help me?
Below some information:

Code:

top - 09:36:07 up  1:09,  4 users,  load average: 1.81, 1.62, 1.56

Tasks: 132 total,  2 running, 130 sleeping,  0 stopped,  0 zombie

Cpu(s): 51.9%us, 18.8%sy,  0.0%ni, 29.1%id,  0.2%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st

Mem:  2076168k total,  2000340k used,    75828k free,  144808k buffers

Swap:  2104472k total,      48k used,  2104424k free,  1492900k cached



PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND

17964 root      25  0 61132  23m 6284 R  100  1.2  3:12.66 update-status

 5014 root      15  0  348m  27m 8248 S  39  1.4  3:10.28 Xorg

 8098 loc      16  0  157m  61m  18m S    1  3.0  0:36.51 firefox-bin

  15 root      10  -5    0    0    0 S    1  0.0  0:17.32 kacpid

 6206 loc      15  0 38436  21m  16m S    1  1.1  0:09.72 kicker

 7064 loc      15  0  2256 1052  764 R    0  0.1  0:04.66 top

    1 root      15  0  744  288  240 S    0  0.0  0:01.23 init

    2 root      RT  0    0    0    0 S    0  0.0  0:00.00 migration/0

    3 root      34  19    0    0    0 S    0  0.0  0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0





another example:

Mem:  2076168k total,  2018044k used,    58124k free,    67852k buffers

Swap:  2104472k total,      60k used,  2104412k free,  1562996k cached



  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND

18259 loc        5 -10  414m 334m 326m S  148 16.5  17:04.73 vmware-vmx

 5014 root      15  0  372m  37m  16m S    1  1.8  6:27.40 Xorg

  15 root      10  -5    0    0    0 S    1  0.0  0:39.07 kacpid

 6204 loc      15  0 31332  16m  13m S    0  0.8  0:03.55 kdesktop

 6206 loc      15  0 38444  21m  16m S    0  1.1  0:16.11 kicker

    1 root      15  0  744  288  240 S    0  0.0  0:01.23 init

I've edited the text to change the font colour so that your the output you posted is visible and put code tags.

update-status (zmd)

ok, I found something: seems that it is a process named "update-status" (zmd) every time I start my PC... When I kill this process, it seems to be ok.
I removed the following packages:
update-test-affects-package-manager
libzypp-zmd-backend
sqlite-zmd
zmd
rug
zen-updater

Seems to be better. But I needed to restart.

At times, it is the vmware-player that slows down the system. I open the virtual machine, and after about 2-3 minutes the CPU is on 100%. Only a shutdown of the vmplayer helps.
What about others? Do you have similar problems with vmware?

I run version 2.0.1 build-55017, Host OS version 2.6.18.8-0.5-default.

My virtual machine is an XP prof SP2 running NAT (can't bridge because of our domain configuration only 1 IP address for 1 physical computer is admitted).

Help!! I'm going crazy.