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This morning when I came to my office i noticed the machine very slow so I did 'top' at the terminal and i see at least 50 process running and they are "kicker-3.4-reve"!!! I am using RedHat Linux

It is taking up memory, how do I get rid of it? How could this happen and how can I avoid it fro happening again? (There is no point in pasting the whole thing but here is a glimpse)

31508 <user> 25 0 87212 8388 7144 S 3 0.1 1:48.34 kicker-3.4-reve
31675 <user> 25 0 87212 8384 7144 S 3 0.1 1:45.74 kicker-3.4-reve
31708 <user> 25 0 87212 8384 7144 S 3 0.1 1:45.04 kicker-3.4-reve
31915 <user> 25 0 87212 8388 7144 S 3 0.1 1:45.74 kicker-3.4-reve
31928 <user> 25 0 87212 8388 7144 S 3 0.1 1:45.74 kicker-3.4-reve
31930 <user> 25 0 87212 8388 7144 S 3 0.1 1:45.74 kicker-3.4-reve
31960 <user> 25 0 87212 8384 7144 S 3 0.1 1:47.14 kicker-3.4-reve
32050 <user> 25 0 87212 8392 7144 S 3 0.1 1:44.24 kicker-3.4-reve
32053 <user> 25 0 87212 8384 7144 S 3 0.1 1:44.24 kicker-3.4-reve
32168 <user> 25 0 87212 8392 7144 S 3 0.1 1:45.34 kicker-3.4-reve
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A Google search seems to indicate that it is a part of KDE somehow. Reboot your system and it will go away? Do a killall? – Zoredache May 31 '12 at 16:30

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