Various unknown process running on the server

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • As per the output of top command, there are some unknown processes running on the server

    2205 root      20   0 72484  452  200 S  0.3  0.0   8:07.01 ywjecspjfk
    
  • The PID of the process does not match with what is displayed under top.

    $ ps -ef | grep  2205
    root      2205     1  8 05:47 ?        00:08:07 sh
    root      9788  9786  0 06:07 pts/0    00:00:10 strace -p 2205 -p 9784
    user  15948 25229  0 07:27 pts/3    00:00:00 grep 2205
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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