These two problems may not be related, but they may, which is why I'm
asking about both of them in the same post.
I've got weird process behaviour.
1. Processes are not ending when they should; specifically mPlayer (but
I'm not certain it's the only one that acts like this, just the worst).
I'm trying to transcode a retail NTSC DVD to PAL (for the record, I was
born in the US and bought this DVD there, I moved to Holland 4 years
ago, and brought it with me, but can't play it in color on a very cheap
standalone DVD player which doesn't convert on-the-fly very well, if at
all). That's a whole 'nother issue, but I'm "following" the forum thread
on this subject, and using -x mplayer,mplayer to feed the file (ripped
to an avi) to transcode.
I'm not good at this, so when the file is transcoded to PAL, something
is usually wrong with it (it's out of sync, the heads are stretched,
whatever. Again, not the point). So I'm deleting the output files,
retranscoding the input file, blah blah blah. Eventually my system
stalls (insofar as I can't open gedit or some other program, although
everything already running keeps running normally), and I check my
system monitor and there's like 10 or more processes of mplayer
streaming the previous attempts. They can be killed, but it seems to me
that when each transcode is finished, the mplayer process should end.
Now I would think that this was just an mPlayer problem, except for
2. Nameless processes running.
When I open the system monitor, I've got a whole lot (16) of processes
running (sleeping, actually, with a nice value of -10), that display no
name, and no information as to what they are.
They seem to be daemon related; at least the first four are under
Metalog (MASTER)=>Metalog (KERNEL)=>udevd. Then the next one is a master
process, with the rest under it, and then there's init [3] as the last.
They all take up 0 bytes memory.
I've run chrootkit and rkhunter with no result, so I don't so much think
I've been hacked as I think it's hot/coldplug maybe reserving space for
devices that are not yet connected. Or something. I hope. But I'm just
guessing, and I'd rather not guess about root-owned daemon processes
that I don't have the first clue what they really are.
I also wonder if these processes (given their high priority) might be
interfering with other processes (like mPlayer), and since I don't know
whether these ghosts should even be running at all, it's certainly a
possibility.
Does anyone know what might be going on here, what might be causing
either of these issues, whether they are likely to be related, and how I
could solve whatever the problem actually is?
TIA,
Holly
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asking about both of them in the same post.
I've got weird process behaviour.
1. Processes are not ending when they should; specifically mPlayer (but
I'm not certain it's the only one that acts like this, just the worst).
I'm trying to transcode a retail NTSC DVD to PAL (for the record, I was
born in the US and bought this DVD there, I moved to Holland 4 years
ago, and brought it with me, but can't play it in color on a very cheap
standalone DVD player which doesn't convert on-the-fly very well, if at
all). That's a whole 'nother issue, but I'm "following" the forum thread
on this subject, and using -x mplayer,mplayer to feed the file (ripped
to an avi) to transcode.
I'm not good at this, so when the file is transcoded to PAL, something
is usually wrong with it (it's out of sync, the heads are stretched,
whatever. Again, not the point). So I'm deleting the output files,
retranscoding the input file, blah blah blah. Eventually my system
stalls (insofar as I can't open gedit or some other program, although
everything already running keeps running normally), and I check my
system monitor and there's like 10 or more processes of mplayer
streaming the previous attempts. They can be killed, but it seems to me
that when each transcode is finished, the mplayer process should end.
Now I would think that this was just an mPlayer problem, except for
2. Nameless processes running.
When I open the system monitor, I've got a whole lot (16) of processes
running (sleeping, actually, with a nice value of -10), that display no
name, and no information as to what they are.
They seem to be daemon related; at least the first four are under
Metalog (MASTER)=>Metalog (KERNEL)=>udevd. Then the next one is a master
process, with the rest under it, and then there's init [3] as the last.
They all take up 0 bytes memory.
I've run chrootkit and rkhunter with no result, so I don't so much think
I've been hacked as I think it's hot/coldplug maybe reserving space for
devices that are not yet connected. Or something. I hope. But I'm just
guessing, and I'd rather not guess about root-owned daemon processes
that I don't have the first clue what they really are.
I also wonder if these processes (given their high priority) might be
interfering with other processes (like mPlayer), and since I don't know
whether these ghosts should even be running at all, it's certainly a
possibility.
Does anyone know what might be going on here, what might be causing
either of these issues, whether they are likely to be related, and how I
could solve whatever the problem actually is?
TIA,
Holly
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