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Jun 9 2014 10:19pm
On my VPS there's a process running that is consistently fluctuating between 80 and 100% cpu usage.

It's the command rpm; -v kernel, which is a child process of /usr/bin/abrtd. Below i copy and pasted the process tree from htop.

When I reboot the VPS the process gets re executed by something. As you can tell, I'm not a linux guru. I'm just not sure whats executing it and how to stop / fix it.

Hoping someone w/ more knowledge of linux can explain whats going on

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2112 root 20 0 105M 716 568 S 0.0 0.0 0:07.40 ├─ /usr/sbin/abrtd
6121 root 20 0 107M 1040 896 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.01 │ └─ /usr/libexec/abrt-handle-event -e post-create -- /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2014-06-10-04:12:39-3671
6128 root 20 0 103M 1224 1060 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 │ └─ /bin/sh -c nice sosreport --tmp-dir "$DUMP_DIR" --batch \ --only=anaconda --only=bootloader
6129 root 30 10 325M 98368 6012 S 0.5 5.1 0:03.02 │ └─ /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/sosreport --tmp-dir /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2014-06-10-04:12:39-3671 --batch --on
7510 root 30 10 99M 29844 4904 R 99.5 1.6 0:05.99 │ └─ rpm -V kernel


I think that it may have something to do with my repos / yum? idk

This post was edited by SelfTaught on Jun 9 2014 10:26pm
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Jun 10 2014 12:38am
From the rpm manpage this option is used to verify an installed package (checks dependencies, installed files etc). Has the process been running for a long time? Maybe something went wrong with a kernel update or something
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Jun 10 2014 01:01am
Quote (m0hawk @ Jun 9 2014 10:38pm)
From the rpm manpage this option is used to verify an installed package (checks dependencies, installed files etc). Has the process been running for a long time? Maybe something went wrong with a kernel update or something


I noticed it probably 4 - 5 days ago. Do you know how I could check if the kernel was updated recently?

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Jun 10 2014 07:52am
What distro is this?
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Jun 10 2014 09:26am
Quote (rockonkenshin @ Jun 10 2014 07:52am)
What distro is this?



Well, it says he mentioned yum so that narrows it down considerably, maybe RH, Fedora or CentOS
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Jun 10 2014 09:29am
Quote (killg0re @ Jun 10 2014 10:26am)
Well, it says he mentioned yum so that narrows it down considerably, maybe RH, Fedora or CentOS


Derp, missed that.

Try running 'yum history info' to see what was recently updated.
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Jun 12 2014 11:01am
I deleted some zlib library files i installed for a c program I was writing and that seemed to fix it
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