[lug] load average constant at 2

Jason Bowen Jason.Bowen at Colorado.EDU
Thu Sep 14 15:07:05 MDT 2000


On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Atkinson, Chip wrote:

> That's odd.  What's rpm -qa | grep ps show?
> 

getty_ps-2.0.7j-9mdk
psmisc-18-2mdk
tetex-dvips-1.0.6-6mdk
psutils-p17-3mdk
xlispstat-3.52.9-4mdk
gnapster-1.3.12-0mdk_helix_1
procps-X11-2.0.6-5mdk
psacct-6.3-2mdk
procps-2.0.6-12mdk


> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Jason Bowen [mailto:Jason.Bowen at Colorado.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 3:03 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: RE: [lug] load average constant at 2
> 
> 
> I had reinstalled procps but here in intersting thing to me.
> 
> [/bin]# rpm -qf ps
> procps-2.0.6-5mdk
> [/bin]# rpm --verify procps-2.0.6-5mdk
> package procps-2.0.6-5mdk is not installed
> 
> 
> On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Atkinson, Chip wrote:
> 
> > The crude version of the ps patch that was installed on my machine was
> "too
> > small".  If you 
> > ls -l $(which ps) and see something that's around 6K bytes, rather than
> 60K
> > bytes, it might be a tipoff.  You can use RPM to help perhaps:
> > rpm -q --whatprovides /bin/ps
> > returns something like procps-2.0.6-5
> > followed by 
> > rpm --verify procps-2.0.6-5
> > 
> > Chip
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > >From: Jason Bowen [mailto:Jason.Bowen at Colorado.EDU]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 2:47 PM
> > To: 'lug at lug.boulder.co.us'
> > Subject: RE: [lug] load average constant at 2
> > 
> > 
> > ps doesn't show anything unusual either.  I thought about an intruder but
> > I don't see anything to be honest.
> > 
> > On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Atkinson, Chip wrote:
> > 
> > > What does ps show?  Any chance there is a secret process that's running
> as
> > > the result of an intrusion?  It was something I found on my machines
> > anyway.
> > > It didn't appear to affect the load too much though.  When I see that
> > > problem, it's often something like netscape.
> > > 
> > > Chip
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > >From: Jason Bowen [mailto:Jason.Bowen at Colorado.EDU]
> > > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 2:38 PM
> > > To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > > Subject: [lug] load average constant at 2
> > > 
> > > 
> > > For about 2 weeks now, at least that is when I noticed it first, my load
> > > average sits at 2.  This is with top reporting the idle processes at
> close
> > > to 100%.  When I reboot the machine the 5 and 15 minute load averages
> > > slowly creep towards 2.00 while the 1 minute average drops to 2.00
> > > after letting the machine idle after I login at the console.  Has
> anybody
> > > seen something like this before?
> > > Jason
> > > 
> > > 
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