What are these processes?

[Kurt Wall]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Hipp" <Michael at hipp.com>
To: "Linux tips and tricks" <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 9:15 AM
Subject: What are these processes?


> 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.

Looks like ownage to me. I'd wipe this system clean and start over.