what is calling perl all the time?

Hi all,

I have the weirdest poRblem I've experienced yet:

recently, my cpu monitor and process count monitor started
showing all
these spikes, so it looks like a comb!  Wondering why, I did
some
investigating.

Watching top, perl seems to appear and disappear all the
time.  I can't
trace it to anything, but it's annoying!

It's only eating up a small (<15%) Chunk of cpu for
about 1 second in
every two, so I don't notice it all that much, but still it
shouldn't be
there.

I wouldn't have a clue where to start looking for this one
- system logs
show nothing of value.  Any leads would be greatly
appreciated!!

thanks,
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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I don't know, a good start might be checking your
rc-scripts, I mean 
which ones are turned on. switching off the non-mandatory
ones might be 
a start. then, what window-manager are you using? could it,
or some 
related sft be the reason? you should start  from as little
'extra' 
(i.e. wm, daemons..) as possible and go to enable things one
by one.

greets,

KArsten

Iain Buchanan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have the weirdest poRblem I've experienced yet:
>
> recently, my cpu monitor and process count monitor
started showing all
> these spikes, so it looks like a comb!  Wondering why,
I did some
> investigating.
>
> Watching top, perl seems to appear and disappear all
the time.  I can't
> trace it to anything, but it's annoying!
>
> It's only eating up a small (<15%) Chunk of cpu for
about 1 second in
> every two, so I don't notice it all that much, but
still it shouldn't be
> there.
>
> I wouldn't have a clue where to start looking for this
one - system logs
> show nothing of value.  Any leads would be greatly
appreciated!!
>
> thanks,
>   

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