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Alex, |
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On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 at 10:14am, Alex wrote: |
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> Recently, I have noticed one our servers (running Gentoo) shows something |
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> strange in the "top" command. |
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> The CPU usage % column shows *integer* values intead of *decimal*. |
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> The server is a (dual?) Pentium4, running an SMP kernel. |
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> chrootkit doesn't show anything really unusual, no unusual ports appear to be |
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> open, and the kernel doesn't allow loading of modules. |
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> Is this just an artifact of SMP kernels or is something strange going on? |
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There was some discussion of this issue on the procps mailing list |
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that indicated that this is a change that was added with version |
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3.2.6, which went stable in portage a bit over a month ago. |
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Based on the following message, it sounds like this is a known issue |
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with the current version of procps: |
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http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=10047072&forum_id=12454 |
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chris |
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