[CentOS] massive load caused by smartvd

Sat Oct 4 01:34:58 UTC 2014
Tim Dunphy <bluethundr at gmail.com>

Hey all,

 I noticed that my puppet server running CentOS 6.5 was acting a little
pokey.

  So I logged in and did what well just about anyone would've done. And ran
the uptime command to have a look at the load. And it was astonishingly
high!

[root at puppet:~] #uptime
 21:28:01 up  1:26,  3 users,  load average: 107.37, 72.06, 75.52


So then I had a look at top and saw a LOT of processes by the name of
smartvd.


 7332 root      20   0  423m 1808    0 S  5.6  0.1   0:49.30 smarvtd
 5469 root      20   0  423m 1804    0 S  4.6  0.1   0:49.55 smarvtd
 2042 root      20   0  423m 1804    0 S  3.7  0.1   0:49.66 smarvtd
 2421 root      20   0  423m 1808    0 S  3.7  0.1   0:47.62 smarvtd
 3081 root      20   0  423m 1808    0 S  3.7  0.1   0:47.08 smarvtd
 3366 root      20   0  423m 1804    0 S  3.7  0.1   0:47.87 smarvtd
 3568 root      20   0  423m 1808    0 S  3.7  0.1   0:48.94 smarvtd
 3971 root      20   0  423m 1812    0 S  3.7  0.1   0:49.18 smarvtd
 4264 root      20   0  423m 1812    0 S  3.7  0.1   0:48.33 smarvtd
 4585 root      20   0  423m 1812    0 S  3.7  0.1   0:48.44 smarvtd
 5277 root      20   0  423m 1808    0 S  3.7  0.1   0:48.13 smarvtd
 6160 root      20   0  423m 1812    0 S  3.7  0.1   0:49.33 smarvtd
 6441 root      20   0  423m 1808    0 S  3.7  0.1   0:48.17 smarvtd
 6746 root      20   0  423m 1804    0 S  3.7  0.1   0:49.60 smarvtd
 7612 root      20   0  423m 1812    0 S  3.7  0.1   0:48.97 smarvtd
 7919 root      20   0  423m 1808    0 S  3.7  0.1   0:47.33 smarvtd
 8202 root      20   0  423m 1812    0 S  3.7  0.1   0:49.67 smarvtd
26526 root      20   0  423m 1812    0 S  3.7  0.1   1:22.17 whitptabil
 2747 root      20   0  423m 1812    0 S  2.8  0.1   0:48.41 smarvtd
 4952 root      20   0  423m 1812    0 S  2.8  0.1   0:48.43 smarvtd
 5878 root      20   0  423m 1808    0 S  2.8  0.1   0:48.02 smarvtd
 7048 root      20   0  423m 1808    0 S  2.8  0.1   0:48.51 smarvtd

So my question to you is what the HELL is smartvd ? Seems like a virus to
me. And of course how do I get rid of it?

Also curious what whitptabil is and how to get rid of it.

I tried doing a search for both:

[root at puppet:~] #rpm -qa | grep smartvd
[root at puppet:~] #

[root at puppet:~] #find / -name smartvd
[root at puppet:~] #

[root at puppet:~] #rpm -qa | grep whitptabil
[root at puppet:~] #find / -name whitptabil
/etc/whitptabil
[root at puppet:~] #

At least I found a file associated with the latter.


Really really curious here, guys. What do y'all think???

Thanks
Tim


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