On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 09:52:37AM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> The only question is, how did top get started by root in the first
> place?
The following is not likely, but worth doing every so often. Don't
panic, but ...
Perhaps you should try checking for a rootkit. There might be a
root
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Joe Pruett wrote:
> kill -1 xxx turning into kill 1 xxx used to be a very bad thing
> (shutdown). i haven't done that in a long time, so i'm not sure if modern
> init's respond the same way or not.
Test and report results? :-)
I usually start with killall , proceed to
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:21 AM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote:
be warned, killall on some unices (ok, i know that aix 3, but i have
vague recollections about older solarises) does not do the same thing
and will in fact kill all processes running under the userid that runs
killall. doing a 'sudo k
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:01, Rogan Creswick wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:21 AM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote:
>>
>> be warned, killall on some unices (ok, i know that aix 3, but i have
>> vague recollections about older solarises) does not do the same thing
>> and will in fact kill all proce
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:21 AM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote:
>
> be warned, killall on some unices (ok, i know that aix 3, but i have
> vague recollections about older solarises) does not do the same thing
> and will in fact kill all processes running under the userid that runs
> killall. doing a
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:50:47 -0800
wes dijo:
>>
>> Evidently mpstat, iostat, and sar are not installed and not in the
>> Fedora 11 repos. I didn't look around to see if I could find an RPM
>> for them somewhere.
>>
>>
>These are commonly found in the "sysstat" package.
Ah, that did it.
But the
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:42:30, John Jason Jordan
wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:28:20 -0700 (MST)
> Carlos Konstanski dijo:
>
> >On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> >
> >> Something is eating 100% of one of my CPUs on my Fedora 11 x86_64
> >> Thinkpad. Occasionally it drops down, a
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 09:09, Rogan Creswick wrote:
> or, if you want to skipp the grepping, just kill all instances of top:
>
> $ killall 21082
oops, i thnk you meant 'killall top'
and if it doesn't die gracefully, killall works with flags too:
killall -9 top
be warned, killall on some unic
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:32 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
> [...@devil8 ~]$ ps -eo pcpu,pid,user,args | sort -k 1 -r | head -10
> %CPU PID USER COMMAND
> 99.0 25327 root top
>
>
> So I killed top, then re-ran the command. It still listed top as 99%.
> WTH?
>
There may well be another
>
> Evidently mpstat, iostat, and sar are not installed and not in the
> Fedora 11 repos. I didn't look around to see if I could find an RPM for
> them somewhere.
>
>
These are commonly found in the "sysstat" package.
-wes
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On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:42:30 -0800
> From: John Jason Jordan
> Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;civil and on-topic"
>
> To: plug@lists.pdxlinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Top is lying
>
ic"
>> To: PLUG
>> Subject: [PLUG] Top is lying
>>
>> And so is System Monitor.
>>
>> Something is eating 100% of one of my CPUs on my Fedora 11 x86_64
>> Thinkpad. Occasionally it drops down, at which point the other CPU
>> surges to 100%. (I t
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:49:15 -0800
drew wymore dijo:
>> Are there other tools to sleuth this down? Commands I could use?
>ps -eo pcpu,pid,user,args | sort -k 1 -r | head -10
>
>That'll show you the top 10 processes and who owns them.
[...@devil8 ~]$ ps -eo pcpu,pid,user,args | sort -k 1 -r | he
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:19:36 -0800
> From: John Jason Jordan
> Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;civil and on-topic"
>
> To: PLUG
> Subject: [PLUG] Top is lying
>
> And so is System Mo
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:42:59 -0800
"William A Morita" dijo:
>Slow down.
>Where are you getting that 100% CPU number from??
>If that were true, you probably could not run top.
I have two CPUs. The 100% is just for one of them. I still have another
CPU that will run other stuff.
And I get it from
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:19 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> And so is System Monitor.
>
> Something is eating 100% of one of my CPUs on my Fedora 11 x86_64
> Thinkpad. Occasionally it drops down, at which point the other CPU
> surges to 100%. (I think they switch back and forth, probably so one of
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 7:20 PM
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Subject: [PLUG] Top is lying
And so is System Monitor.
Something is eating 100% of one of my CPUs on my Fedora 11 x86_64 Thinkpad.
Occasionally it drops down, at which point the other CPU surges to 100%. (I
think they switch back and forth, probably
And so is System Monitor.
Something is eating 100% of one of my CPUs on my Fedora 11 x86_64
Thinkpad. Occasionally it drops down, at which point the other CPU
surges to 100%. (I think they switch back and forth, probably so one of
them doesn't get too tired and go on strike.)
System Monitor shows
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