Invisible process killing the CPU

[Sergey Zaharchenko]

Hello Nagy!

Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 05:54:18PM +0100 you wrote:

[ systat -vmstat 1 ]
> Namei         Name-cache    Dir-cache               4960 prcfr
                                                      ^^^^

Looks like processes on this system are forking at a rate of 5000/sec.
The `last pid' in the top output should be incrementing like mad. The
processes finish before top gets to see them for a long enough time, so
you don't get to see a single process eating up all cpu.

-- 
DoubleF
No virus detected in this message. Ehrm, wait a minute...
/kernel: pid 56921 (antivirus), uid 32000: exited on signal 9
Oh yes, no virus:)
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