On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM Tim Evans tkevans@tkevans.com wrote:
Have noticed very heavy sluggishness in my F-41 system response over the past week or so. Totally idle system showing steady 1.0+ system load average; lightly used system showing 2.0+. Some apps' response delayed 30 seconds or longer.
Top shows tracker-miner-fs-3 steady at 18-35% CPU
systemctl status shows:
tkevans@osprey:/home/tkevans$ systemctl status | grep track │ │ │ └─77161 grep track │ ├─tracker-miner-fs-3.service │ │ └─77151 /usr/libexec/tracker-miner-fs-3
But:
tkevans@osprey:/home/tkevans$ systemctl stop tracker-miner-fs-3.service Failed to stop tracker-miner-fs-3.service: Unit tracker-miner-fs-3.service not loaded
I've killed the process for now, and system load back to normal, but wonder why this is happening and how to adjust it.
# uname -a Linux osprey 6.12.8-200.fc41.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Jan 2 19:26:03 UTC 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Standard Gnome desktop.
I would be interested to learn about how the malware got on your system. It sounds like it managed to install itself with root privileges.
Do you recall what you were doing around the time it showed up or you experienced the slow down?
Jeff