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.
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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