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: http://en.wi

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

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

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

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 syste

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 al

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 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 increa

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

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 usa

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 bi

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 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 wan

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 Sea

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 p

[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