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The journal service using four cores

ci-07 has run at full CPU for hours. A process named after the journal service is the top consumer. Prove it is not the real one and find where it connects.

  • Terminal mission
  • Beginner
  • 4 objectives
  • 0 of 4 solved

Briefing

Monitoring shows ci-07 pinned at 100% on all four cores since early morning. Builds are timing out.

The real journal daemon is /lib/systemd/systemd-journald, runs as root, and barely uses CPU.

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ci-07 · Processes and ports

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