I am sorry this the only screenshot i have, my laptop fan suddenly started up and wouldnt stop for like an hour so i opened sytem monitor and this was taking 25% cpu usage
more is a legitimate program (it reads a file and writes it out one page at a time), if it is the real
more
. It is a memory hog in that (unlike the more advanced pagerless
) it reads the entire file into memory.I did an experiment to see if I could get the real
more
to show similar fds to you. I pipedyes "" | head -n10000 >/tmp/test
, then ranmore < /tmp/test 2>/dev/null
. Then I ranls -l /proc/`pidof more`/fd
.Results:
lr-x------ 1 andrew andrew 64 Nov 5 14:56 0 -> /tmp/test lrwx------ 1 andrew andrew 64 Nov 5 14:56 1 -> /dev/pts/2 l-wx------ 1 andrew andrew 64 Nov 5 14:56 2 -> /dev/null lrwx------ 1 andrew andrew 64 Nov 5 14:56 3 -> 'anon_inode:[signalfd]'
I think this suggests your open files are probably consistent with the real
more
when errors are piped to/dev/null
. Most likely, you were running something that called more to output something to you (or someone else logged in on a PTY) that had been written to/tmp/RG3tBlTNF8
. Next time, you could find the parent of the more process, or look up what else is attached to the samePTS
with thefuser
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sorry i panicked and killed the process this is the only screenshot ihave, basically my laptop fan was revving high for 1 hour straight, i was doing some text editing and light usage so i didnt think much off it, but i left my system for a while and came back and saw the fan was still revving, thats when i found this process
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Yeah, next time don’t panic. Use
ps
andpstree
andfuser
(or the programs you like) to first find out the executable filename with full path and which program started it. Then you can kill it and you’ll have some info to start debugging things.deleted by creator
no its about 11 years old
Uhm, so what’s the name of the binary? This is just a list of open files.I missed that it’s “more”…Dude thinks ‘more’ is a virus.