top command, being hacked?

shanenin · 10-30-2003, 05:15 PM

My hard disk was going crazy, so I typed top, to see what it would show. The three top cpu users were all vi, all run by root. Is that normal?

trickykid · 10-30-2003, 05:18 PM

Not unless you have vi running elsewhere that you've started.

shanenin · 10-30-2003, 05:27 PM

I was using vi earlier, but I thought I closed all of my terminals(using vi). If I closed them by clicking the x in the corner instead of shiftzz, would that still leave them open.

trickykid · 10-30-2003, 07:47 PM

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Originally posted by shanenin
I was using vi earlier, but I thought I closed all of my terminals(using vi). If I closed them by clicking the x in the corner instead of shiftzz, would that still leave them open.

In some cases it can leave some instances open. I always prefer to close programs properly by usually clicking close in the menu options.

shanenin · 10-30-2003, 08:25 PM

thank you