I've got this process called 'onlyservice' that is using up all CPU and slowing everything down
This has only recently started up (today and maybe yesterday)
It may have something to do with my network card writing to the /var/log/message log file (for testing purposes) but it also may not. (This was enabled about four days ago)
If I try to kill the process, it just starts a new one.
What is this and what do I need to do to stop it consuming my CPU?
Rodd
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:35:07 +1100, Rodd Clarkson rodd@clarkson.id.au wrote:
I've got this process called 'onlyservice' that is using up all CPU and slowing everything down
this is one of the perl scripts used by logwatch to help parse logs based on a set of configuration files in /etc/log.d/conf/services/. If i understand the magic correctly, onlyservice will be called a number of times as logwatch loops through the several individual service config files. So i don't think its a big shock to see this process reappear after you kill it since i think it gets run multiple times. Why its chewing lots of cpu that i don't know. I'm seldom awake when logwatch runs as part of the cron.daily scripts.
onlyservice is located in /etc/log.d/scripts/shared and is owned by the logwatch package
-jef