ksyncer_daemon

[Muddling Thru]

Hi folks. First, I am a person in training (self teaching) and have some questions.

1. What is ksyncer_daemon?
2. Is it true that something is wrong when SYS% > USER% (see below)?


Load averages: 3.20, 2.95, 2.82
472 processes: 369 sleeping, 102 running, 1 zombie
Cpu states: 4 processors
LOAD USER NICE SYS IDLE BLOCK SWAIT INTR SSYS
3.20 0.8% 43.8% 54.5% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

sar -u output

15:19:00 %usr %sys %wio %idle
15:20:00 46 49 4 1
15:21:00 43 53 3 1
15:22:00 46 50 3 1
15:23:00 43 51 5 1
15:24:00 44 52 4 1

Average 44 51 4 1

Can you also recommend any good beginner books for tuning?

[DCE]

The ksyncer is part of the KDE subsystem
see the following link:
http://www.kde.org/

For good study reference material you might want to look at the books in this link:
http://www.hp.com/hpbooks/authors/rehman.html

[Muddling Thru]

Thank you DCE. I appreciated your time and help. I am struggling with the numbers of seeing ksyncer_daemon constantly taking on average 35+% of a CPU. I read up on the KDE website and they boost that it is light weight.

AM I being nuts? (On glance or top this daemon is constantly on top 5 PIDs)

Thanks in advance.