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./javaUpdates taking 99.9% CPU utilization.In this case java is not running.How to kill the event permanently or alternate solution.

Posted December 17, 2019 648

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while use top command in Ubuntu 14.04 it showing as below
31694 root 20 0 301856 2036 1716 S 99.7 0.1 3:46.31 javaUpdates

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bobbyiliev December 21, 2019

Hello,

When you run top you could press c and you would be able to see the full command which would give you more information about the process.

Another thing that you could do is run:

ps aux | grep java

This should also give you more information.

If you think that you don’t need that process, you could stop it by running:

sudo kill 31694

If it does not stop, you could try running the kill command with a SIGKILL:

sudo kill -9 31694

Regards,
Bobby

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ljheidrick July 10, 2020

I am having this problem as well. It is coming back after killing it and hogging cpu taking the web server down. ./javaUpDates is the command it gives.

Even after running all pkg updates and droplet restarts, it spawns another process. I even went into etc and removed it. It still somehow is being spawned as a process. Googling isn’t turning up much. Do you have any ideas?
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- ljheidrick July 10, 2020
  
  I have found this to be malware and the system was compromised.
  
  for others that may find this - https://medium.com/@ankurjoshissj/what-is-watchbog-and-how-to-remove-it-common-steps-for-removing-malware-from-linux-systems-836e8128bb81
  
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