Re: [Re: What the hell is removeservice and why does it eat CPUcycles]

[Michael Schwendt <ms0301rh arcor de>]

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On Sat, 01 Mar 2003 14:08:02 -0700, Kapil Khanna wrote:

> On Sat, 01 Mar 2003 13:06:19 -0700, Kapil Khanna wrote:
> 
> > My linux box is running slow and on running top i find the following 
> > 
> >   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
> > 13033 root      14   0   996  996   848 R    40.1  1.0   2:25 rmoveservice
> > 13032 root      13   0  1036 1036   884 S    18.8  1.0   1:19 expandrepeats
> > 13034 root      10   0  1008 1008   856 S    15.4  1.0   0:48 applystddate
> > 13041 root      14   0  1000  992   736 R     2.4  1.0   0:04 top
> >    13 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.1  0.0   0:06 kjournald
> 
> These are from "logwatch". Even if you didn't know those executable
> names, you could feed them into Google.
> 
> > Why are these processes consuming all the CPU cycles?

> I did a google search but found very little. Logwatch churns a lot of logs it
> seems, and the process is pretty CPU intensive. Will have to schedule them to
> run late at night.

What I meant is your subject line. ;) You could at least track down
to which package a program belongs, e.g. with RPM. As a last resort,
that often works with Google. Actually if you had searched for the
program names (note your spelling mistake: it's called
"removeservice", not "rmoveservice"), it would have returned pages
about logwatch.

One problem with logwatch (is this about Red Hat Linux 8.0) could be
the heavy usage of regular expression pattern matching.

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