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Re: [cobalt-users] How to Nail a hidden process.



On Tuesday 16 April 2002 10:01 am, MAHESH PATIL wrote:
> It might sound insane..  But I am facing this problem.
>   Actually my Raq4 is slowing down (you can say
> completely halt) allowing nothing more than a ping.
> Every day this happens and happens at the same time.
>
> I doubt it to be some cronjob.  I could not trace it
> out in our regular cron files.  It is not displaying
> even in ps -aux.  This program is a big memory hog.
> because the  Raq is sending mails that 95% of memory
> is being used.  Usually I dont have such usage of
> memory at other times.
>
> my doubt :  Whether any process running in a system
> can hide from  ps -aux.  How to nail such processes.
> Are there any hidden crontab files.
>

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