[Gllug] ssh

[Vincent AE Scott]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 tet at accucard.com wrote:

> 
> >what does top show?  is the process actually using the CPU?
> >and if not have you tried running :
> ># strace -p <pid of program you ran>
> >
> >this should give some indication about what the program is doing.
> 
> Probably not. I doubt the process of key generation involves many
> system calls after the initial entropy gathering phase...

but top will.
with those two commands  ( and possibly lsof for checking FD's ) you can
deduce a lot of info about what a program is doing.


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