• SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world
    65·
    10 months ago

    Finding: It’s our new intrusion detection software deployed across the enterprise that reads every byte read or written to disk and memory.

    Check for updates and maybe, just maybe, the vendor, fickle gods that they are, will release an update that doesn’t mistakenly triple scan everything.

  • unalivejoy@lemm.eeEnglish
    61·
    10 months ago

    Meanwhile on Windows: “That’s just my antivirus. Yeah… I won’t be very productive for the next 20 minutes.”

    It’s a real problem. I think there’s a Firefox bug where Firefox will freeze while checking for updates while the CPU is under heavy load.

    • Raccoonn@lemmy.ml
      5·
      10 months ago

      I can make Firefox use way too much resources simply by visiting an Instagram profile & opening the toolbox on a few posts to inspect the code…

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      It’s fucked-up that Firefox even checks for updates itself (instead of letting the package manager do it) in the first place. It wouldn’t have the bug if it didn’t have the unnecessary functionality.

  • GluWu@lemm.ee
    261·
    10 months ago

    That moment when you hear the fans slowing down, realize they shouldn’t have been running high, and you have no idea how long they were. I’m hardware, not software, so I just assume my robot master has artificial constipation.

  • Mubelotix@jlai.lu
    17·
    10 months ago

    A testing lemmy instance with no users just did that for 24 hours before I turned it off. The fans woke me during the night

  • renzev@lemmy.world
    9·
    10 months ago

    Debian, at some point, had updatedb scheduled as a cronjob by default. Nearly shit my pants thinking I was hacked when it started up on my computer out of the blue haha.

  • marcos@lemmy.world
    8·
    10 months ago

    Last time I got a scare like that, it was the monitoring agent that had some code with a performance that depended o the number it measured.