ok a real fun one pt III (SOLVED)

[GOTHBITES]

hello yall

This is simple.  My computer is lagging i can tell especially when i go to a website as told before i open up konsole and type "top"

and here are the results

top - 14:36:32 up  3:57,  1 user,  load average: 1.53, 1.64, 1.60
Tasks: 109 total,   3 running, 106 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 77.3%us, 22.7%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   2075988k total,   807700k used,  1268288k free,    47772k buffers
Swap:  4739132k total,        0k used,  4739132k free,   481800k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 2384 lp        20   0 11500 2552 1924 R 52.3  0.1 126:01.49 hpcups
 2284 root      20   0  8620 3000 2344 S 23.6  0.1  53:36.46 cupsd
 2167 root      20   0  1848  648  528 S 20.0  0.0  45:59.77 syslogd
 4183 root      20   0 47280  21m 5680 S  0.7  1.0   0:14.54 python
20124 root      20   0  155m 102m  13m S  0.7  5.1   0:14.58 X
20293 zack      20   0 38532  16m  13m S  0.7  0.8   0:06.84 kded

so i cross reference with KSysguard and got my this as the culprit now so how do i kill it as i can't from KSysguard also who is the user lp because the only one that should be logged in is  Zack 


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[cyrwyn]

lp is your printer; looks like hpcups is using resources for some reason. What happens when you try to kill the process in KSysGuard? That can only be done in root. Does it not open up a dialog box asking for your root password?

[GOTHBITES]

lp is your printer; looks like hpcups is using resources for some reason. What happens when you try to kill the process in KSysGuard? That can only be done in root. Does it not open up a dialog box asking for your root password?

OK thanks the good to know about lp being my printer.  As for your second question No it doesn't bring up a dialog box

[jaydot]

you'll see the pid for lp.  use kill pid # in the console.  that may not be quite accurate, but it's along those lines.

[GOTHBITES]

you'll see the pid for lp.  use kill pid # in the console.  that may not be quite accurate, but it's along those lines.

WHOA!!! Thanks for that. another cli command i must master lol   

Update!!!   
I have done what Jaydot instructed me to do and that help sorta. I type in konsole it worked but gave me this error

[zack@localhost ~]$ kill pid 2384
bash: kill: pid: arguments must be process or job IDs

After which  i went into PCC to uninstall my printer,because of what cyrwyn had mentioned earlier in this post
 

lp is your printer; looks like hpcups is using resources for some reason.

then I reinstalled  the printer again and did a test print to watch my cpu usage with the "top" command so far no issues as in lagging and the web works well now

thanks again

So mark this post BUSTED  I mean Solved

my sincere apologies to the Mythbusters