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I have the following server:
- Ubuntu 14 LTS 64 bit
- Linode Hosting
- fail2ban enabled
- firewall enabled
- SSH root login diabled and only key access to server.
Problem:
When I run htop
, it shows high CPU usage due to various commands like whoami
, grep "A"
, 'pwd' etc. Please help to stop this.
Here is the htop
output:
Tree view of htop
:
Could you please switch to tree view (press
t
orF5
on your keyboard) so we can see where exactly these processes are launched? – Daniel B – 2014-11-16T13:03:23.0672Why are you running gnome on a VPS? o0 And everything is being run as root? You don't run things as root unless needed. – Journeyman Geek – 2014-11-16T14:14:13.927
Have you tried rebooting the machine? Sometimes a process goes rogue and hogs the CPU. – slhck – 2014-11-16T14:25:23.500
Yes, did reboot but it continue to eat cpu – GBD – 2014-11-16T14:26:30.027
@JourneymanGeek Understood but what is solution now ? – GBD – 2014-11-16T14:27:11.920
Unless you need to, stop gnome-terminal or better the whole X server or better install a server version (not desktop version) of Ubuntu. – steady rain – 2014-12-01T20:38:38.030