anyone think of why the mouse would stop moving in intermitant peroids of time?
I though root kitted but got chkrootkit yesterday and it came up fine - nothing found. my 1st thought is to do a reinstall as i maybe compromised. anyone got other tools to suggest i try ? pc box... AMD 3000+ 1gig Ram limited users/w running. at the time of last stall (lack of movement) i had kmail up & writign this email. used top to get this top - 22:34:17 up 3:25, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.10, 0.12 Tasks: 125 total, 2 running, 123 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 1.0%us, 0.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 969308k total, 471000k used, 498308k free, 28k buffers Swap: 1172704k total, 23760k used, 1148944k free, 231956k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 7329 dave 20 0 34108 14m 11m S 0.7 1.5 0:05.96 kdesktop 10672 dave 20 0 2308 1124 852 R 0.7 0.1 0:00.26 top 5867 mysql 20 0 124m 15m 4676 S 0.3 1.7 0:04.60 mysqld 7098 root 20 0 73168 58m 5212 S 0.3 6.2 3:25.43 Xorg 1 root 20 0 2844 1692 544 S 0.0 0.2 0:01.42 init 2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 ksoftirqd/0 5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 6 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.14 events/0 7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 41 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.12 kblockd/0 44 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid 45 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify 159 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 kseriod 197 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush 198 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.48 pdflush [1]+ Stopped top d...@amd3000:~$ Looking at this i see i can stop mysql & also postesql not currently using them so why have them running? still other areas? dave