C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
On Sunday 06 November 2005 21:56, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* C. Brouerius van Nidek <constant@indo.net.id> [11-06-05 09:48]:
Do not know what I did but suddenly I had tracerroute running three times. Have killed it in htop and have the idea that I got rid of it. Could somebody give me some background. Google gave my only some basic ideas. If your question is why you have three instances of traceroute current, _you_ must have started them. You do not say what the circumstances were or how/why/when you initiated traceroute.
Cannot remember how and where I started tracerroute
Why is/was it a problem to have three instances running?
No real problem there. Just an overkill ;-)
What background is it that you want? -- Where could I have started tracerroute?
You most probably didn't, you'd surely have remembered. This smacks of a problem I had recently, for some reason skype was starting them. To fix this, I've had to build and install traceroute-1.4a12, the SuSE version is way downlevel. I really noticed it because my boxes, a XP3200+ x86 and a XP3000+ x86_64 laptop were ever so slow, top showed multiple traceroute instances running and consuming nearly all CPU, as high as 99.7%. Kill them and they restart, kill skype and then kill them and they didn't restart. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks