Mplayer Using Up Cpu And Wont Go Away

my cpu has been at 100% all day, and its due to mplayer. I never started mplayer, and I dont see a window for mplayer, but its in the process table, and it keeps appearing and disappearing with a new PID and using up all of the available cpu. If I pkill it, just keeps coming back. How can I find out what keeps calling and closing it, and how can I get it stop?

on a week old installation of opensuse 10.3 and KDE 3.5

I dont see a window for mplayer, but its in the process table, and it keeps appearing and disappearing with a new PID and using up all of the available cpu. If I pkill it, just keeps coming back. How can I find out what keeps calling and closing it, and how can I get it stop?[/b]

Do you have multiple user accounts? Could this have been opened from another user account? Can you check which user started the application?

no other accounts are active as far as I can tell, and i've tried restarting a couple of times. I'll try restarting and not saving the session, maybe that will do it?

I'll try restarting and not saving the session, maybe that will do it?[/b]

Not saving the session? I don't recall seeing a nominal option like this. Is this a Gnome option? Do you have an "bad" existing firefox session that is still inappropriately surviving each reboot (linked to a website where the mplayerplug-in is being called)?

well, in 'Personal Settings,' under 'KDE Components' -> 'Session Manager' you can set whether to restore your old session when you restart or start a new one. I'm hoping whatever is mysteriously starting mplayer wont get started again if i restart with a new session instead of a restored one.

well, not restoring the sessions seems to have done it for now. still, i wish i knew of a way to track down what caused the problem in the first place.

Ok, now i've found the problem. once i manually started up ktorrent, the fleating and cumbersome mplayer process came back. I've found some other threads talking about this, saying its something to do with a program that scans your home folder, and gets hung up scanning the torrent folder with mplayer. they however are using gnome on ubuntu and the process is called "trackerd". anyone know the equivalent for kde?