corporate managed laptops are the worst

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My MacBook had load over 600, even after a reboot it was unusable (load still 500+).

I looked at Activity Monitor and noticed kernel_task was maxing out as much as it can and so was syslogd.
I looked at recent writes to log files in /var/log and noticed junk from acnvmagent. 
I killed that process. It came back. 
I ran `sudo chmod 0 /opt/cisco/anyconnect/NVM/bin/acnvmagent` and killed the process.
It did not come back. Now my laptop is usable again.  
Possibly relevant log message:  

``` Apr 14 16:13:03 JAWREN-M-455A vpnagentd[85]: [acnvmagent] Function: killNVMIfPresent Thread Id: 0xCFA5000 File: /tmp/build/thehoff/Phoenix_MR10.310731736127/Phoenix_MR1/NVM/ServicePlugin/Unix/NVMServicePluginImpl.cpp Line: 165 :: Verifying process is not already running... Apr 14 16:13:03 JAWREN-M-455A vpnagentd[85]: [acnvmagent] Function: StartService Thread Id: 0xCFA5000 File: /tmp/build/thehoff/Phoenix_MR10.310731736127/Phoenix_MR1/NVM/ServicePlugin/Unix/NVMServicePluginImpl.cpp Line: 118 :: 'acnvmagent' service started, pid 2124 Apr 14 16:13:03 JAWREN-M-455A vpnagentd[2124]: [acnvmagent] Function: StartService Thread Id: 0xCFA5000 File: /tmp/build/thehoff/Phoenix_MR10.310731736127/Phoenix_MR1/NVM/ServicePlugin/Unix/NVMServicePluginImpl.cpp Line: 112 :: execl error, errno=13 Apr 14 16:13:04 JAWREN-M-455A vpnagentd[85]: [acnvmagent] Function: StartService Thread Id: 0xCFA5000 File: /tmp/build/thehoff/Phoenix_MR10.310731736127/Phoenix_MR1/NVM/ServicePlugin/Unix/NVMServicePluginImpl.cpp Line: 131 :: 'acnvmagent' service process , pid 2124, terminated Apr 14 16:13:04 JAWREN-M-455A vpnagentd[85]: [acnvmagent] Function: killNVMIfPresent Thread Id: 0xCFA5000 File: /tmp/build/thehoff/Phoenix_MR10.310731736127/Phoenix_MR1/NVM/ServicePlugin/Unix/NVMServicePluginImpl.cpp Line: 165 :: Verifying process is not already running... Apr 14 16:13:04 JAWREN-M-455A vpnagentd[85]: [acnvmagent] Function: StartService Thread Id: 0xCFA5000 File: /tmp/build/thehoff/Phoenix_MR10.310731736127/Phoenix_MR1/NVM/ServicePlugin/Unix/NVMServicePluginImpl.cpp Line: 118 :: 'acnvmagent' service started, pid 2125 Apr 14 16:13:04 JAWREN-M-455A vpnagentd[2125]: [acnvmagent] Function: StartService Thread Id: 0xCFA5000 File: /tmp/build/thehoff/Phoenix_MR10.310731736127/Phoenix_MR1/NVM/ServicePlugin/Unix/NVMServicePluginImpl.cpp Line: 112 :: execl error, errno=13 Apr 14 16:13:05 JAWREN-M-455A vpnagentd[85]: [acnvmagent] Function: StartService Thread Id: 0xCFA5000 File: /tmp/build/thehoff/Phoenix_MR10.310731736127/Phoenix_MR1/NVM/ServicePlugin/Unix/NVMServicePluginImpl.cpp Line: 131 :: 'acnvmagent' service process , pid 2125, terminated Apr 14 16:13:05 JAWREN-M-455A vpnagentd[85]: [acnvmagent] Function: killNVMIfPresent Thread Id: 0xCFA5000 File: /tmp/build/thehoff/Phoenix_MR10.310731736127/Phoenix_MR1/NVM/ServicePlugin/Unix/NVMServicePluginImpl.cpp Line: 165 :: Verifying process is not already running... Apr 14 16:13:05 JAWREN-M-455A vpnagentd[85]: [acnvmagent] Function: StartService Thread Id: 0xCFA5000 File: /tmp/build/thehoff/Phoenix_MR10.310731736127/Phoenix_MR1/NVM/ServicePlugin/Unix/NVMServicePluginImpl.cpp Line: 118 :: 'acnvmagent' service started, pid 2126 Apr 14 16:13:05 JAWREN-M-455A vpnagentd[2126]: [acnvmagent] Function: StartService Thread Id: 0xCFA5000 File: /tmp/build/thehoff/Phoenix_MR10.310731736127/Phoenix_MR1/NVM/ServicePlugin/Unix/NVMServicePluginImpl.cpp Line: 112 :: execl error, errno=13 Apr 14 16:13:06 JAWREN-M-455A vpnagentd[85]: [acnvmagent] Function: StartService Thread Id: 0xCFA5000 File: /tmp/build/thehoff/Phoenix_MR10.310731736127/Phoenix_MR1/NVM/ServicePlugin/Unix/NVMServicePluginImpl.cpp Line: 131 :: 'acnvmagent' service process , pid 2126, terminated Apr 14 16:13:06 JAWREN-M-455A vpnagentd[85]: [acnvmagent] Function: killNVMIfPresent Thread Id: 0xCFA5000 File: /tmp/build/thehoff/Phoenix_MR10.310731736127/Phoenix_MR1/NVM/ServicePlugin/Unix/NVMServicePluginImpl.cpp Line: 165 :: Verifying process is not already running... Apr 14 16:13:06 JAWREN-M-455A vpnagentd[85]: [acnvmagent] Function: StartService Thread Id: 0xCFA5000 File: /tmp/build/thehoff/Phoenix_MR10.310731736127/Phoenix_MR1/NVM/ServicePlugin/Unix/NVMServicePluginImpl.cpp Line: 118 :: 'acnvmagent' service started, pid 2127 Apr 14 16:13:06 JAWREN-M-455A vpnagentd[2127]: [acnvmagent] Function: StartService Thread Id: 0xCFA5000 File: /tmp/build/thehoff/Phoenix_MR10.310731736127/Phoenix_MR1/NVM/ServicePlugin/Unix/NVMServicePluginImpl.cpp Line: 112 :: execl error, errno=13 Apr 14 16:13:07 JAWREN-M-455A vpnagentd[85]: [acnvmagent] Function: StartService Thread Id: 0xCFA5000 File: /tmp/build/thehoff/Phoenix_MR10.310731736127/Phoenix_MR1/NVM/ServicePlugin/Unix/NVMServicePluginImpl.cpp Line: 131 :: 'acnvmagent' service process , pid 2127, terminated ```

Very sad by this. It ruined my day. It cut a webex conversation I was having on important work.
I didn't know why the audio cut out of webex until my cursor and changing windows was slow.

At first I thought it was a runaway browser tab - I had loaded huge grafana data in a tab in chromium. ~5GB
Then I thought, might as well kill the podman machine while I was at it to free up all that memory. ~2GB

Laptop only has 16GB. Now I see why folks need 32GB laptops.

None of that helped.

When things were still terrible after a reboot, I knew something else must be wrong.
Docker and podman don't start on reboot. Browser tabs don't load on reboot (I have to login).

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