Re: unknown process hogging cpu... need help.

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Leonard den Ottolander writes:
 > Hi folks,
 > 
 > > Boo on the uptime though :(.
 > 
 > > Too bad on the uptime, Tim.  I had a webserver up for 251 days last
 > > summer.
 > 
 > > We had a name server back in 2000 that had 500 some odd days of
 > > uptime.
 > 
 >  Although I can understand having such uptimes makes a man proud it also 
 > means that you haven't done a kernel upgrade for that amount of time, which 
 > is a very very very bad thing. Sorry to bust your balls ;-) .

I pretty much said the same thing in my original post when I said,
"Security related kernel patches come out so often nowdays that any
server on the internet with a very long uptime is a *TARGET*!"

Also, that nameserver was internal to a lab testing environment, and
not connected to the internet.  :-)

The webserver, however, was simply out of date.  :-(

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