There is a strange thread called sourplum running in my CentOS server. It uses a lot of resources and affects the excel and pdf generation.
Tasks: 280 total, 2 running, 277 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 51.6%us, 1.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 47.3%id, 0.1%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 8030792k total, 6821428k used, 1209364k free, 892256k buffers
Swap: 4194300k total, 36712k used, 4157588k free, 3776380k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
13170 root 20 0 613m 3544 964 S 402.1 0.0 2595:58 sourplum
25664 focu 20 0 384m 21m 14m R 9.9 0.3 0:00.65 php
4377 root 20 0 129m 22m 3780 S 2.0 0.3 0:48.58 MONyog-bin
1 root 20 0 19348 1372 1136 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.13 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.42 migration/0
4 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.12 ksoftirqd/0
5 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 stopper/0
6 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.05 watchdog/0
7 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.24 migration/1
and that there are two files of this name located
/sourplum
/root/sourplum
But I was not able to find out anything regarding what this process is.
I tried to kill the thread but it started again automatically. I have to restart the server but it is just a temporary fix. After several hours the thread start again.
What should I do? Can I just delete the file? Thanks!
