I need help. I have an unknown process that has suddenly starting hogging the CPU on my staging server (RH8).
I came back from the screensaver, pressed ALT-F2 to open a gnome-terminal. Pressed F1 to get a help window (I wanted to look something up). As the help window opened, I moused over to a mozilla window and clicked the close widget.
Everything froze at that point. The HDD spun up, and it has been going for 3 hours now. I'm very worried. I get some GUI response, the mouse seems to be tracking, albeit very slowly like a flip-book cartoon. But keyboard and mouse clicks are being consumed or ignored.
How can I arrest a haywire process that is potentially consuming 99% of the CPU?
CTRL-ALT-Delete is not responding. I just looked up some stuff on the mailing list archives for "process hog" and "process hogging CPU" and see that X might be the culprit. I'm considering a trip to work to test CTRL-Backspace to arrest X, but this might not work as I'm not sure about the keyboard.
The box is responding to ping. But that could be the NIC and unrelated to the OS.
Thoughts? I'm desperate enough to hit the power button. This is very upsetting as the HDD may fail if it continues much longer.
Tim
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