Too many processes

Hello everyone,
On my old desktop as soon as the pc initialize the system slow down. When I look at the processes I see that there are many ‘sh’ processes and ‘systemd-udevd’ being constantly opened, after about 10 minutes more than 10 000 processes running. What it can be?
Thnx anyway.

Kernel: 3.11.10-17-desktop x86_64
Desktop: KDE 4.13.3
Distro: openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle)

Intel Pentium 4
2gb ram (533mhz)
nvidia 5300

If possible, could you please copy paste the results of some of these processes and when posting, put the result inside code blocks, like this:

cool text

You might also find some hints from /var/log/messages as to what the issue might be.

Few times later the system seems to back to normal. Can’t understand.
A piece of log message…

 2014-08-04T18:33:56.448498-03:00 linux-dwas kernel:   844.474106] NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce 6200 GPU installed in this system is2014-08-04T18:33:56.448531-03:00 linux-dwas kernel:   844.474106] NVRM:  supported through the NVIDIA 304.xx Legacy drivers. Please
2014-08-04T18:33:56.448536-03:00 linux-dwas kernel:   844.474106] NVRM:  visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more
2014-08-04T18:33:56.448540-03:00 linux-dwas kernel:   844.474106] NVRM:  information.  The 331.89 NVIDIA driver will ignore
2014-08-04T18:33:56.448543-03:00 linux-dwas kernel:   844.474106] NVRM:  this GPU.  Continuing probe...
2014-08-04T18:33:56.448547-03:00 linux-dwas kernel:   844.474130] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found!
2014-08-04T18:33:56.448550-03:00 linux-dwas kernel:   844.474286] NVRM: NVIDIA init module failed!
2014-08-04T18:34:22.251141-03:00 linux-dwas su: pam_unix(su:session): session closed for user root
2014-08-04T18:34:52.144419-03:00 linux-dwas systemd[1]: Starting Cleanup of Temporary Directories...
2014-08-04T18:34:52.275719-03:00 linux-dwas systemd[1]: Starting CUPS Printing Service...
2014-08-04T18:34:52.285059-03:00 linux-dwas systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service.
2014-08-04T18:34:52.412405-03:00 linux-dwas cupsd[21299]: No limit for Validate-Job defined in policy allowallforanybody and no suitable template found.
2014-08-04T18:34:52.444063-03:00 linux-dwas cupsd[21299]: No limit for Cancel-Jobs defined in policy allowallforanybody and no suitable template found.
2014-08-04T18:34:52.445097-03:00 linux-dwas cupsd[21299]: No limit for Cancel-My-Jobs defined in policy allowallforanybody and no suitable template found.
2014-08-04T18:34:52.445975-03:00 linux-dwas cupsd[21299]: No limit for Close-Job defined in policy allowallforanybody and no suitable template found.
2014-08-04T18:34:52.446787-03:00 linux-dwas cupsd[21299]: No limit for CUPS-Get-Document defined in policy allowallforanybody and no suitable template found.
2014-08-04T18:34:52.447575-03:00 linux-dwas cupsd[21299]: No JobPrivateAccess defined in policy allowallforanybody - using defaults.
2014-08-04T18:34:52.448522-03:00 linux-dwas cupsd[21299]: No JobPrivateValues defined in policy allowallforanybody - using defaults.
2014-08-04T18:34:52.449462-03:00 linux-dwas cupsd[21299]: No SubscriptionPrivateAccess defined in policy allowallforanybody - using defaults.
2014-08-04T18:34:52.450318-03:00 linux-dwas cupsd[21299]: No SubscriptionPrivateValues defined in policy allowallforanybody - using defaults.
2014-08-04T18:34:56.121771-03:00 linux-dwas systemd[1]: Started Cleanup of Temporary Directories.
2014-08-04T18:36:41.231224-03:00 linux-dwas su: (to homebase) homebase on none
2014-08-04T18:36:41.268135-03:00 linux-dwas su: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user root by (uid=1000)
2014-08-04T18:36:41.291786-03:00 linux-dwas su: pam_systemd(su:session): pam_putenv: delete non-existent entry; XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

On 2014-08-05 00:06, george00ful wrote:
>
> Few times later the system seems to back to normal. Can’t understand.
> A piece of log message…
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> 2014-08-04T18:33:56.448498-03:00 linux-dwas kernel: 844.474106] NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce 6200 GPU installed in this system is2014-08-04T18:33:56.448531-03:00 linux-dwas kernel: 844.474106] NVRM: supported through the NVIDIA 304.xx Legacy drivers. Please
> 2014-08-04T18:33:56.448536-03:00 linux-dwas kernel: 844.474106] NVRM: visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more
> 2014-08-04T18:33:56.448540-03:00 linux-dwas kernel: 844.474106] NVRM: information. The 331.89 NVIDIA driver will ignore
> 2014-08-04T18:33:56.448543-03:00 linux-dwas kernel: 844.474106] NVRM: this GPU. Continuing probe…
> 2014-08-04T18:33:56.448547-03:00 linux-dwas kernel: 844.474130] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found!
> 2014-08-04T18:33:56.448550-03:00 linux-dwas kernel: 844.474286] NVRM: NVIDIA init module failed!

> --------------------

You have the wrong NVidia driver installed. That’s probably not related
to your “many processes” issue, but it will make your display slower.

There might be messages related to udev further up in the log.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.

(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))