Hello,
i'm having the mdw_daemon.pl eating many many CPU and RAM. Yesterday i put another 256 mb ram on the machine because my swap space was too big and there was lot of swap I/O operations. I report a 'top' snapshot'. I Searched this group for similar problem and i found this but no solutions...
top - 09:51:31 up 14:31, 1 user, load average: 1.58, 1.24, 0.74
Tasks: 103 total, 4 running, 98 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 94.8% user, 5.2% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 515532k total, 500100k used, 15432k free, 48932k buffers
Swap: 1052248k total, 60908k used, 991340k free, 39060k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
597 root 25 0 164m 164m 2976 R 88.2 32.6 38:02.82 mdw_daemon.pl
1076 root 15 0 49348 44m 668 S 4.3 8.9 2:04.84 snort_inline
1307 root 15 0 432 404 104 S 1.6 0.1 0:36.63 nacctd
628 root 15 0 7440 7440 2324 S 1.3 1.4 7:00.32 selfmonng.pl
12165 root 15 0 960 960 720 R 1.3 0.2 0:00.24 top
1198 root 15 0 2168 1628 740 R 1.0 0.3 0:33.61 hyperdyper
390 root 15 0 2536 2404 2052 S 0.7 0.5 0:13.22 alicd
2421 chroot 15 0 848 736 604 S 0.7 0.1 0:10.82 sockd
214 root 15 0 892 880 520 S 0.3 0.2 0:29.03 syslog-ng
1271 chroot 15 0 37212 34m 13m S 0.3 6.9 0:54.12 squidf
12069 loginuse 15 0 1928 1864 1704 R 0.3 0.4 0:00.09 sshd
1 root 15 0 228 228 188 S 0.0 0.0 0:05.25 init
2 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 keventd
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.02 ksoftirqd_CPU0
4 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.06 kswapd
5 root 16 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 bdflush
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