Hi, ext Tuukka Tolvanen wrote: > Paul Klapperich wrote: >> The past few days i've woken to a dead battery. Tonight I noticed high >> cpu while running Pidgin. Pidgin crashed and the usage continued. It >> was a process sh owned by root , at 90-100% usage. I killed it. >> >> A few minutes later i loaded pidgin and the cpu platued at 100% again. >> It was sh again, so i killed it. >> >> I started pidgin 2x more without problems, so now I think it was just >> coincidental. Is this something being launched by cron? Where is cron >> on this anyway? Anyone know what that sh may have been doing? Top only >> displayed 'sh', nothing more. > > ps or cat /proc/[pid]/cmdline will show you the command line which could Better use "tr '\0' ' ' < /proc/PID/cmdline", as NULLs show up a bit funny on the console. > help figure out what it's trying to do. top will also show the parent > process id (ppid) which may tell you who launched it. - Eero
