My proxy thread takes alot of resources? How to track cause?

Hello, i setup proxy on my VPS according to this manual and quite often i started to see this process on the top of processlist

ssh -p XX -f -N -D 0.0.0.0:1080 localhost

http://i.snag.gy/STGT2.jpg

Also the proxy stopped working, cant connect websites thru it, works some little time after reboot but then fails

So im curious which logs or things i need to lookup. i went thru /var/log but no ssh file, no suspicious things.

thx

Originally Posted by postcd Hello, i setup proxy on my VPS (..) and quite often i started to see this process on the top of processlist

Using 'ssh' in that way it doesn't do anything but encrypt and shove traffic over the tunnel. If it's high in the process list it means it must be doing some work.

Originally Posted by postcd Also the proxy stopped working, cant connect websites thru it, works some little time after reboot but then fails

I doubt that's ssh's fault as we don't knwow what you're connecting to, what that service status is and if any errors occurred. If ssh stops working rebooting the machine is Windows behavior: with Linux that's seldomly (and I mean seldomly) necessary.

Originally Posted by postcd So im curious which logs or things i need to lookup. i went thru /var/log but no ssh file, no suspicious things.

Once 'ssh' runs it gets out of the way. It doesn't "log" (you have to pipe output yourself if that's appropriate) nor does it spit out messages (you have to set single or multiple "-v"'s yourself).

Originally Posted by postcd thx

"Thanks" would mean tending to your threads of which you have way to many and to which you seldomly reply.


//NTLB