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> 1. Re: March Meeting Presentations (George Toft)
> 2. Re: March Meeting Presentations (George Toft)
> 3. Re: March Meeting Presentations (John (EBo) David)
> 4. glibc/gcc/binutils (Craig S.)
> 5. sendmail & kmail (Nathan England)
> 6. two questions (Chase Granberry)
> 7. Re: PLUG-discuss digest, Vol 1 #2013 - 18 msgs (Craig S.)
> 8. Re: PLUG-discuss digest, Vol 1 #2014 - 16 msgs (Craig S.)
> 9. Re: Dual Boot, yes...Triple Boot? (Carl Parrish)
> 10. Re: Router-Gateway-Firewall solution for less than 150?? (Carl Parrish)
> 11. Re: March Meeting Presentations (Bob George)
> 12. openbsd 3.0 and vpn (Mike)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 07:23:05 -0500
> From: George Toft <george@georgetoft.com>
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: March Meeting Presentations
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>
> Hi John,
>
> Post a ps and let the group dissect it.
>
> George
>
> "John (EBo) David" wrote:
> >
> > bob smith wrote:
> > >
> > > Heh...would that be something worthwhile to do? A PLUG rootwar?
> >
> > oh god....
> >
> > hmmm... I should join. I've been having some really odd behaviour for
> > a bit and I really do wonder if someone is using my machine for batch
> > processes. But nothing untoward show up in ps, tops, etc. and just may
> > be some of the new background processes I do not know about, but I've
> > got to wonder...
> >
<insert my 2 cents>
this may be oversimplifying the process but I find the simplest things are the most often overlooked, especially on my system. Anyway I
notice that update is running, check the time between updates, it could be that you are updating the file list db every 30 min or so. I had
this problem so I put the update on a specific time rather than running update on a time interval. The same goes for any other process
running that requires a time interval, check those too. If you can't locate processor hogging pids that way then try suspending processes
that run on time intervals (unless you can't do without the process) and see if the problem clears up. If it does then you know you have a
problem with one of them. You can try re-animating them one at a time until you start having trouble again, then you have your problem
process.
I am pretty sure that most of this is covered in a how-to, not sure which one offhand, I think the security guide at linuxdoc.org is great
for helping us new *nix admins out.
About a root war... hopfefully NOT, I have enough on my hands keeping up in school.
Craig S.
</insert my 2 cents>
>
>
> $ ps -aux
> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
> root 1 0.0 0.0 1412 52 ? S Mar09 0:04 init [3]
> root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar09 0:01 [keventd]
> root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN Mar09 0:00
> [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
> root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN Mar09 0:00
> [ksoftirqd_CPU1]
> root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar09 0:25 [kswapd]
> root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar09 0:00
> [kreclaimd]
> root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar09 0:00 [bdflush]
> root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar09 0:00
> [kupdated]
> root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< Mar09 0:00
> [mdrecoveryd]
> root 17 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar09 0:00
> [kjournald]
> root 92 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar09 0:00 [khubd]
> root 190 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar09 0:00
> [kjournald]
> root 709 0.0 0.0 1472 156 ? S Mar09 0:00 syslogd
> -m 0
> root 714 0.0 0.0 2004 0 ? SW Mar09 0:00 klogd -2
> rpc 734 0.0 0.0 1556 0 ? SW Mar09 0:00 portmap
> rpcuser 762 0.0 0.0 1596 0 ? SW Mar09 0:00 rpc.statd
> root 927 0.0 0.0 2264 0 ? SW Mar09 0:00 xinetd
> -stayalive
> lp 949 0.0 0.0 2576 0 ? SW Mar09 0:00 lpd
> Waiting
> root 977 0.0 0.1 5296 368 ? S Mar09 0:00 sendmail:
> accepti
> root 996 0.0 0.0 1440 56 ? S Mar09 0:00 gpm -t
> imps2 -m /
> root 1014 0.0 0.0 1588 108 ? S Mar09 0:00 crond
> root 1032 0.0 0.1 7684 452 ? S Mar09 0:00
> /usr/sbin/quasard
> xfs 1084 0.0 0.3 5676 908 ? S Mar09 0:01 xfs
> -droppriv -da
> daemon 1120 0.0 0.0 1444 44 ? S Mar09 0:00
> /usr/sbin/atd
> root 1134 0.0 0.0 2344 0 tty1 SW Mar09 0:00 login --
> ebo
> root 1135 0.0 0.0 1384 0 tty2 SW Mar09 0:00
> /sbin/mingetty tt
> root 1136 0.0 0.0 1384 0 tty3 SW Mar09 0:00
> /sbin/mingetty tt
> root 1137 0.0 0.0 1384 0 tty4 SW Mar09 0:00
> /sbin/mingetty tt
> root 1138 0.0 0.0 1384 0 tty5 SW Mar09 0:00
> /sbin/mingetty tt
> root 1139 0.0 0.0 1384 0 tty6 SW Mar09 0:00
> /sbin/mingetty tt
> ebo 1142 0.0 0.0 2948 0 tty1 SW Mar09 0:00 -tcsh
> ebo 1162 0.0 0.0 2228 0 tty1 SW Mar09 0:00 /bin/sh
> /usr/X11R
> ebo 1169 0.0 0.0 2344 0 tty1 SW Mar09 0:00 xinit
> /etc/X11/xi
> root 1170 1.0 14.5 109532 37196 ? S Mar09 32:31
> /etc/X11/X :0
> ebo 1173 0.0 0.0 2232 0 tty1 SW Mar09 0:00 /bin/bash
> /usr/bi
> ebo 1233 0.0 0.1 16072 504 ? S Mar09 0:03 kdeinit:
> dcopserv
> ebo 1236 0.0 0.1 17344 444 ? S Mar09 0:00 kdeinit:
> klaunche
> ebo 1239 0.0 0.2 17492 560 ? S Mar09 0:00 kdeinit:
> kded
> ebo 1240 0.0 0.0 2468 0 ? SW Mar09 0:00 fam
> ebo 1253 0.0 0.1 5516 384 ? S Mar09 0:01
> /usr/bin/artsd -F
> ebo 1260 0.0 0.3 19232 804 ? S Mar09 0:02 kdeinit:
> knotify
> ebo 1261 0.0 0.0 16552 0 ? SW Mar09 0:00 kdeinit:
> Running.
> ebo 1262 0.0 0.2 11400 712 tty1 S Mar09 0:01 ksmserver
> --resto
> ebo 1263 0.0 1.1 18000 2940 ? S Mar09 0:38 kdeinit:
> kwin -se
> ebo 1271 0.0 1.1 18316 2908 ? S Mar09 0:46 kdeinit:
> kdesktop
> ebo 1274 0.0 1.7 20196 4348 ? S Mar09 0:41 kdeinit:
> kicker
> ebo 1281 0.0 0.6 17660 1772 ? S Mar09 0:01 kdeinit:
> klipper
> ebo 1283 0.0 0.1 17084 452 ? S Mar09 0:00 kdeinit:
> kwrited
> ebo 1284 0.0 0.5 18040 1464 ? S Mar09 0:01 kdeinit:
> konsole
> ebo 1285 0.0 0.0 1640 0 pts/0 SW Mar09 0:00 /bin/cat
> ebo 1287 0.0 0.3 16752 800 ? S Mar09 0:00 alarmd
> ebo 1288 0.0 0.6 18096 1684 ? S Mar09 0:02 kdeinit:
> konsole
> ebo 1290 0.0 0.9 18588 2496 ? R Mar09 0:16 kdeinit:
> konsole
> ebo 1291 0.0 0.2 18008 632 ? S Mar09 0:00 kdeinit:
> konsole
> ebo 1292 0.0 0.2 18012 612 ? S Mar09 0:01 kdeinit:
> konsole
> ebo 1293 0.0 0.2 18008 600 ? S Mar09 0:01 kdeinit:
> konsole
> ebo 1294 0.0 0.2 3076 660 pts/4 S Mar09 0:01 -bin/tcsh
> ebo 1296 0.0 0.0 2836 0 pts/3 SW Mar09 0:00 -bin/tcsh
> ebo 1301 0.0 0.0 2848 0 pts/1 SW Mar09 0:00 -bin/tcsh
> ebo 1302 0.0 0.0 2836 0 pts/2 SW Mar09 0:00 -bin/tcsh
> ebo 1307 0.0 0.0 2836 0 pts/5 SW Mar09 0:00 -bin/tcsh
> ebo 1324 0.0 0.0 2836 0 pts/6 SW Mar09 0:00 -bin/tcsh
> ebo 1331 0.0 0.0 3224 0 ? SW Mar09 0:00
> gnome-name-servic
> ebo 2247 0.0 0.2 8988 560 pts/4 S Mar09 0:01 emacs
> -xrm *name:
> ebo 6111 0.0 0.3 8968 780 pts/4 S Mar09 0:01 emacs
> -xrm *name:
> ebo 14737 0.0 0.2 8700 644 pts/4 S Mar09 0:00 emacs
> -xrm *name:
> ebo 17404 0.0 0.2 8780 664 pts/4 S Mar09 0:00 emacs
> -xrm *name:
> ebo 20076 0.0 0.4 9576 1068 pts/4 S Mar09 0:11 emacs
> -xrm *name:
> ebo 20172 0.0 0.3 18084 804 ? S Mar09 0:01 kdeinit:
> konsole
> ebo 20173 0.0 0.0 2852 0 pts/7 SW Mar09 0:00 -bin/tcsh
> ebo 20300 0.0 0.2 9360 636 pts/4 S Mar09 0:03 emacs
> -xrm *name:
> ebo 20347 0.0 0.4 24948 1148 pts/4 S Mar10 0:18 konqueror
> ./vigra
> ebo 28553 0.4 8.3 34024 21372 ? S 00:17 1:44
> /usr/lib/netscape
> ebo 28577 0.0 0.6 17296 1684 ? S 00:17 0:00 (dns
> helper)
> ebo 28979 0.0 0.3 2928 972 pts/4 R 06:10 0:00 ps -aux
>
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