What are these processes?

Michael Hipp Michael at hipp.com
Mon Nov 16 11:01:57 PST 2009


Nothing that I can find. After a reboot all seems well.

Odd thing is I couldn't find these processes in 'ps -ef'.

Michael


Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> No clue, but it looks highly suspicious to me.  Do you have any
> binaries on the system named '3' ?
> 
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
>> Anyone have any idea what these "3" might be?
>>
>>
>>  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>>  8116 root      20   0  3180  740  636 R 33.2  0.0   1683:15 3
>>  8267 root      20   0  3180  740  636 R 33.2  0.0   1677:59 3
>> 23476 root      20   0  3180  744  636 R 32.9  0.0 334:25.58 3
>> 12887 michael   20   0  2416 1160  876 R  0.3  0.0   0:00.29 top
>>
>> The system was running painfully slow. After I rebooted they do not seem to
>> have reappeared.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Michael
> 
> 
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