On Fri April 26 2024 06:52:08 William Morder via tde-users wrote: <snip> > I had to restart my proxy, then I used iwconfig and ifconfig to restart my > connection. I noticed that top showed 17 zombies. > > So I said, let's see. As one can see from the output below, most of these > zombies are indeed root processes named w, whatever that means here. > > No (if readers are wondering), I have not yet tried to trace these PIDs to > discover exactly what are these processes; but at least I know that those > mysterious w processes indeed often are the zombies, and that they are > owned by root. <snip> If I found unexpected things happening on a system I would be worried about the possibility of malware. If I found an unexpected zombie with pid 12345 I would immediately do "file /proc/12345/exe" and proceed to investigate from there. --Mike ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
