On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:34:13 -0600 Bill Gradwohl <bill@xxxxxxx> wrote: > More info: > > Heres a top immediately before a groupadd command: > top - 20:24:55 up 1 day, 3:25, 3 users, load average: 0.93, 1.23, 1.25 > Tasks: 51 total, 2 running, 49 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.3% id, 0.7% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si > Mem: 1035980k total, 25784k used, 1010196k free, 1136k buffers > Swap: 2032212k total, 14804k used, 2017408k free, 4312k cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 6173 root 16 0 2904 580 432 R 0.3 0.1 0:00.46 top > 1 root 16 0 3032 88 68 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.02 init > 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.66 ksoftirqd/0 > 3 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.13 events/0 > 4 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 khelper > 16 root 15 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid > 113 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:25.66 kblockd/0 > 178 root 12 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 > > Heres the top while groupadd is running, about 30 seconds into it: > top - 20:25:33 up 1 day, 3:26, 3 users, load average: 1.19, 1.24, 1.25 > Tasks: 52 total, 3 running, 49 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 23.0% us, 9.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 67.7% wa, 0.3% hi, 0.0% si > Mem: 1035980k total, 1030268k used, 5712k free, 1168k buffers > Swap: 2032212k total, 259104k used, 1773108k free, 16236k cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 6181 root 18 0 1205m 959m 116 R 31.1 94.8 0:14.26 groupadd > 177 root 15 0 0 0 0 D 1.0 0.0 4:04.83 kswapd0 > 6175 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.03 pdflush > 1 root 16 0 3032 88 68 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.02 init > 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.66 ksoftirqd/0 > 3 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.13 events/0 > 4 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 khelper > 16 root 15 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid > 113 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:25.66 kblockd/0 > > > Here's the time output: > root@s2 ~# time groupadd docers > > real 3m21.632s > user 0m27.710s > sys 0m9.414s > > > All of the group* and user* utilities take roughly 3 1/4 minutes to > complete. The only users loged in are my ssh session. Check out the > memory used during the groupadd. This is on a new P4 @ 2.6ghz > > Everything else on the box appears to be normal. > > -- > Bill Gradwohl > bill@xxxxxxx > http://www.ycc.com > spamSTOMPER Protected email > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Here is my top without groupadd: top - 09:36:20 up 16 min, 3 users, load average: 0.90, 0.94, 0.63 Tasks: 99 total, 1 running, 98 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 58.5% us, 11.6% sy, 0.7% ni, 27.9% id, 1.3% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 256136k total, 244044k used, 12092k free, 5460k buffers Swap: 522104k total, 47292k used, 474812k free, 41020k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4547 rmiles 16 0 28724 24m 2760 S 15.6 9.7 0:06.71 spamd 4548 root 16 0 28376 23m 2736 S 10.6 9.5 0:05.70 spamd 5307 rmiles 15 0 39108 9444 7412 S 3.7 3.7 0:06.50 gnome-terminal 5118 root 15 0 164m 19m 4352 S 3.3 7.7 0:30.23 X 5246 rmiles 15 0 10260 3920 3188 S 3.0 1.5 0:24.34 at-spi-registry 5387 rmiles 16 0 20812 9016 7040 S 2.0 3.5 0:19.66 geyes_applet2 5297 rmiles 16 0 45260 12m 8984 S 1.7 4.8 0:03.81 nautilus 5303 rmiles 16 0 30028 6036 5076 S 1.7 2.4 0:12.29 gkrellm 5305 rmiles 25 10 34972 16m 8652 S 1.0 6.4 0:08.62 rhn-applet-gui 5398 rmiles 16 0 22292 8636 7176 S 1.0 3.4 0:03.81 clock-applet 5513 rmiles 15 0 5500 2008 1628 S 0.3 0.8 0:00.44 fetchmail 1 root 16 0 1840 560 480 S 0.0 0.2 0:01.04 init 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 3 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.23 events/0 4 root 8 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 khelper 16 root 14 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid 90 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.23 kblockd/0 Here is my timing of groupadd: [root@localhost ~]# time groupadd docers real 0m0.157s user 0m0.007s sys 0m0.007s As you can see it's so fast I didn't have time to do a top while it was running. Something definitely looks wrong on your system. The only thing different on my system is I wasn't running ssh. Could something have compromised your groupadd command? Script kiddie or something? -- Richard E Miles Federal Way WA. USA registered linux user 46097
