everything looks pretty normal to me.
The process-list is showing the following displayserver processes :
1 X state R : the process generating the process-list
1 X state Z : zombie process that gets removed when applet is killed
3 X state S : one process to serve the applet-data, one process to send ir-codes and one process to accept new socket-connections.

If I were you I would start sniffing the net...
BTW, can you ping the empeg when the interruption occurs?

Frank van Gestel
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Frank van Gestel