I'm unable to find any info about what they might be. You might want to keep it off the network until you find out. You can wait for it to start back up and just do a: /usr/sbin/lsof -n | grep dcs This will give you an idea of what it's doing (what files it has open or what network ports it's doing stuff on). Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Florin Iucha [mailto:florin at iucha.net] > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 10:19 AM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Mystery processes > > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 07:47:57AM -0600, phil at rephil.org wrote: > > I had two mystery processes virtually lock up my laptop for > 1/2 hour, > > (disk thrashing) before deciding that I didn't have anything on the > > system that should be doing that. The only clue I got was > the names > > of the processes at the top of "top", and I didn't recognize them. > > > > Does anyone know what "dcsP43zCr" and "dcsaNhlna" might > belong to? Or > > should I start tearing apart the firewall and go to DEFCON-5? > > PULL THE NETWORK AND THE POWER PLUGS! > > florin > > -- > > "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." > > 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 >