Mono

In process of learning SUSe 10.2 I run with Gnome System monitor displayed most of the day on one of the monitors here to be able to watch things like CPU load and running processes. I feel like familiarity is a good defense.

Earlier this afternoon I noticed mono, a process I had never seen before running, 2 instances of it. I did a google and turns out it is (from their website)

ono provides the necessary software to develop and run .NET client and server applications on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. Sponsored by Novell (http://www.novell.com), the Mono open source project has an active and enthusiastic contributing community and is positioned to become the leading choice for development of Linux applications

Now this is all fine I though ah haah Novell right?? So I decided to investigate further in K Sys V and could not find mono listed for any of the runlevels. Furthermore it was listed as a zombie process. For me lighter and simpler with less services running is better I popped a terminal window su ed and did a kill -9 (pid) tried it on both processess. The result was that it spawned two MORE instances of mono running as Zonmbies. OK Fine. Reboot when in doubt. Back to runlevel 5 and no more mono.

So Im not freaked out by this only wondering that since it is a zombie and not under any services menu as something that should be run is this a leaker i.e. a child spawned by a parent that went away and refused to take the child along? Additionally why would killing from root spawn 2 more of the same?? Seems if this is the case the parent process should have killed the child. Either that or I have some sort of security problem. I dont game with this machine and I understand that thats part of what mono can be used for. Additionally I do watch occasional videos either various things from the Youtube page or self help videos for futures traders (watched one today). Most of what I watch ends up using xine.

TIA for the consideration and any comments would be appreciated.
Carr

Hi,

mono is used by beagle to index pdf files and so on.

here is the a sample output from the pstree command

beagled-helper─┬─2*[mono]
**** │****************└─5*[{beagled-helper}

as you can see mono is a child process from begaled-helper.
you may also have noticed that begale updates/creates a static index. this script is a cron job and runs once per day. this might also cause mono processes and of course cpu load

to control beagle and exclude some folders from indexing you can use kerry (on kde).


hope this helps

Hi,

mono is used by beagle to index pdf files and so on.

here is the a sample output from the pstree command

beagled-helper─┬─2*[mono]
**** │****************└─5*[{beagled-helper}

as you can see mono is a child process from begaled-helper.
you may also have noticed that begale updates/creates a static index. this script is a cron job and runs once per day. this might also cause mono processes and of course cpu load

to control beagle and exclude some folders from indexing you can use kerry (on kde).
hope this helps
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Ah...Many thanks for the information. I was curious since I like to becomefamiliar with the different processes. It is curious though that even as root I could not kill mono.

Thanks very much for the interest and information

Regards
Carr