[Bulk] Re: F7 now super slow, will it infect Fedora 8?

[Rick Stevens]

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 20:09 -0500, Doug Purdy wrote:
> Le lun 04/02/2008 à 19:16, Rick Stevens a écrit :
> > On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 18:13 -0500, Doug Purdy wrote:
> > > Monday 04/02/2008 at 14:05, Phil Meyer wrote:
> ...
> > > Thanks Phil! Memory does seem to be the problem on the 1.2gig Fedora 7
> > > computer. With System Monitor the only application running, memory usage
> > > climbs continuously at about 10 megs a minute. It's now into the swap
> > > file for 230 megs. CPU usage is about 25% even though System monitor is
> > > only using 2-6%. The 760 meg Fedora Core 2 computer is still acting
> > > normally and reporting memory and CPU usage in agreement with the
> > > processes reported by System Monitor.
> > > 
> > > How do I investigate what invisible process is using the CPU and memory?
> > 
> > Try "top" first and see if that shows it.  If you got rootkitted, then
> > it may not show the guilty process.  Go fetch a copy of ckrootkit and
> > run it:
> > 
> > 	http://www.chkrootkit.org/
> > 
>  
> Here's TOP:
> 
> top - 19:21:44 up  3:10,  1 user,  load average: 0.67, 0.96, 0.89
> Tasks: 130 total,   4 running, 126 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 20.5%us,  5.9%sy,  0.0%ni, 52.1%id, 21.1%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.3%si,
> 0.0%st
> Mem:   1295100k total,  1271352k used,    23748k free,     2796k buffers
> Swap:  2031608k total,  1039564k used,   992044k free,    60660k cached
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+ 
> COMMAND            
>  2163 root      20   0 10324 1580  908 R  8.0  0.1  19:33.59
> cupsd              
>  2735 root      20   0  104m  11m 3844 R  7.0  0.9  18:14.48
> Xorg               
>  2905 root      20   0 1820m 950m 2564 S  6.6 75.2  18:15.50
> smartpanel         
>  3401 doug      20   0 34944 4704 3228 S  1.7  0.4   2:44.87
> gnome-system-mo    
>   199 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.7  0.0   0:09.92
> kswapd0            
>  4126 doug      20   0 40920  13m 9800 S  0.7  1.0   0:00.44
> gnome-terminal     
>  2268 mysql     20   0  133m 1288  548 S  0.3  0.1   0:08.21
> mysqld             
>  4160 doug      20   0  2256 1028  796 R  0.3  0.1   0:00.28 top  
> 
> The "smartpanel" is a program from my new Samsung printer in the "system
> tray."

If I'm reading that right, the resident part of smartpanel is 950MB
(which itself is insane) and total footprint is 1.8GB.  That's farking
HUGE!  That's what's eating your RAM, man!  If you can, turn the
damned thing off and send a nasty letter to Samsung!  No one should
write code like that...especially for something that's just a status
monitor.
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