[CentOS] Runaway rpm process?

[James B. Byrne]

On Fri, July 12, 2013 13:34, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am 12.07.2013 16:06, schrieb James B. Byrne:
>>
>> CentOS-6.4_x86_64
>>
>> I have a KVM virtual machine (several actually) which acts as a warm
>> spare for another kvm instance running on a different physical host.
>> Each hour it backs up the live system using rsync.  This morning I
>> discovered that the backup instance was running at 99% utilisation
>> and that the process consuming the entire virtual cpu was this:
>>
>> sh -c rpm -q -a --queryformat
>> "%{NAME}\n%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\n%{EPOCH}\n%{GROUP}\n%{SUMMARY}\n\n"
>> 2>/dev/null
>>
>> In fact there were two identical instances of these processes, one
. . .
>> Where is this process started from?  What does it do?  And why is it
>> consuming so much cpu.?
>>
>> Does anyone here have any ideas?
>
> rpm-cron-4.8.0-32.el6.noarch
>
> which contains
>
> /etc/cron.daily/rpm
>
> It writes a file which contains a list of installed RPM packages on
> the system.

Does anyone have any suggestion as why this process would get hung up
like this?


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