Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 6. August 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:49:01 -0400, sean wrote: Hans, Xav, Thank You both, ran the root kit check no problems. Which may not prove much. Rootkit detectors (I prefer rkhunter BTW) are most effective when installed before a computer is open to

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 09:19:40 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Hans, Xav, Thank You both, ran the root kit check no problems. Which may not prove much. Rootkit detectors (I prefer rkhunter BTW) are most effective when installed before a computer is open to infection. If you install

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-07 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Neil Bothwick wrote: I agree, heavy disk I/O can cause major slowdowns, but if someone is considering a rootkit infection, they should at least be aware of the facts when looking for it. I agree. Let's add some data to the thread:

[gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread sean
There seems to be a lot of excessive processor usage and I am trying to track down why. Is anyone able to recommend the best way to track down what is causing the excess processor usage? I have not noticed anything using top. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread Xav'
sean a écrit : There seems to be a lot of excessive processor usage and I am trying to track down why. Is anyone able to recommend the best way to track down what is causing the excess processor usage? I have not noticed anything using top. So how do you know there is an excessive

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread Abraham Marín Pérez
sean escribió: There seems to be a lot of excessive processor usage and I am trying to track down why. Is anyone able to recommend the best way to track down what is causing the excess processor usage? I have not noticed anything using top. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread Duane Griffin
On 06/08/07, sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There seems to be a lot of excessive processor usage and I am trying to track down why. Is anyone able to recommend the best way to track down what is causing the excess processor usage? I have not noticed anything using top. You might want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread Xav'
Abraham Marín Pérez a écrit : sean escribió: There seems to be a lot of excessive processor usage and I am trying to track down why. Is anyone able to recommend the best way to track down what is causing the excess processor usage? I have not noticed anything using top.

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread sean
Xav' wrote: So how do you know there is an excessive processor usage ? Could you describe more precisely what you want to mean ? Have gkrellm2 monitoring CPU usage and often for varied lengths of time will see a long and increased processor usage, this usually occurs on CPU1. Things get a

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 6. August 2007, sean wrote: Xav' wrote: So how do you know there is an excessive processor usage ? Could you describe more precisely what you want to mean ? Have gkrellm2 monitoring CPU usage and often for varied lengths of time will see a long and increased processor usage,

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:30:01 +0200 Xav' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to check there is no such program on your system, I advice you to try chkrootkit, to check there is no such rootkit on your system... To put it correctly, since there is _NO_ way to assure that there isn't a

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread sean
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag, 6. August 2007, sean wrote: Xav' wrote: So how do you know there is an excessive processor usage ? Could you describe more precisely what you want to mean ? Have gkrellm2 monitoring CPU usage and often for varied lengths of time will see a long and

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread sean
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:30:01 +0200 Xav' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to check there is no such program on your system, I advice you to try chkrootkit, to check there is no such rootkit on your system... To put it correctly, since there is _NO_ way to

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:49:01 -0400, sean wrote: Hans, Xav, Thank You both, ran the root kit check no problems. Which may not prove much. Rootkit detectors (I prefer rkhunter BTW) are most effective when installed before a computer is open to infection. If you install it on a machine that has

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 August 2007, sean wrote: Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:30:01 +0200 Xav' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to check there is no such program on your system, I advice you to try chkrootkit, to check there is no such rootkit on your system... To put it

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread Paul
so there is always an assumption On 8/6/07, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06 August 2007, sean wrote: Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:30:01 +0200 Xav' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to check there is no such program on your system, I advice