[SLUG] RedHat 7 slow - kupdate?

[woodgrove@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi,

I have recently upgraded from:
RedHat 6.0 on a 100Mhz Pentium with 32 M of RAM
to:
RedHat 7 on a 1GHz Pentium III with 256 M of RAM.

It now runs like a dog, taking time out while, according to "top" 
something called "kupdate" is soaking up 99.5% of the CPU. This 
seems to get worse as the computer has been up for a few hours.

What's happening and how do I remedy it?

Regards, Greg Wood