month old processes?!
Posted by: jidanni
Posted on: 2009-02-27 20:02:00
Say, every so often I see some old processes
jidanni@hoffa:~$ ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
jidanni 8145 0.0 0.0 30664 1040 pts/0 R+ 11:16 0:00 ps -aux
jidanni 14672 0.0 0.0 65092 11692 ? S Jan28 0:00 php5.cgi
jidanni 15161 0.0 0.0 64796 9716 ? S Jan28 0:00 php5.cgi
jidanni@hoffa:~$ ls -og /proc/14672
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 2009-02-28 08:03 cwd -> /home/jidanni/mediawiki-1.13.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 2009-02-28 08:03 exe -> /usr/local/dh/cgi-system/php5.cgi
Maybe they had to do with somebody's browser pipelining(?), but never
hanging up?
They seem harmless, but a month old?! I killed them anyway.
No hints in http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Persistent_Processes.