Nicolas Alvarez schrieb:
> clipka wrote:
>> Is this some kind of Highlander process, that's immune to any fatal
>> wounds, and wants all the power for itself??
> 
> If something can't be killed with -9, you can be sure something in the 
> *kernel side* is causing problems.
> 
> A hung FUSE filesystem sometimes caused me such unkillable processes :/

How can I tell whether a filesystem is running as FUSE?

Some other observations that may hint in a similar direction:

- The lockup occurs when I log in as a normal user, but when I log in as 
root everything is shiny. Now the /home directories are actually on a 
different partition. (fsck -f does not report anything suspicious for 
that partition though.)

- Aside from Xorg eating a full core's power, I typically also see about 
50% of another core's time being eaten by a process named 
"hald-addon-stor", which I think can't be right either.

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