On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, J. Rashaad Jackson wrote: >In checking my 'top' processes today, I noticed a process named 'circuit' >that was calmly sucking up 99.2% of my CPU time. I kill -TERM -ed it and it >went quietly, but I'm concerned. Anyone know what this is? Please tell me >it's not a rootkit. > I can't say for sure it isn't a different 'circuit' you had running, but... There is a '/usr/lib/xscreensaver/circuit' belonging to the 'xscreensaver-gl' package. If you have that package installed, it's probably nothing to worry about.
/Stefan