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Re: [cobalt-users] How to Nail a hidden process.
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] How to Nail a hidden process.
- From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Apr 16 11:33:38 2002
- Organization: Front Street Networks LLC
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
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.
>
What does top read?
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