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I upgraded a couple of servers to the latest version of Ubuntu a couple of days ago and noticed something really odd when checking the running processes post-upgrade.

For some bizarre reason there were literally thousands of “fuser” processes running.

Odd, but I didn’t think too much of it, as they disappeared after a reboot .. or so I thought ..

This morning I discovered that they’d come back with a vengeance and were eating CPU and RAM – rendering a relatively powerful machine pretty much useless.

A bit of searching led to this thread on the Ubuntu user forums.

There’s also a bug open with Ubuntu – though they still haven’t fixed it

In the meantime it can be “fixed” by reverting the php5 cronjob to the one that was in previous versions of Ubuntu.

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We finally launched a cloud hosting solution yesterday afternoon…

Lots of more stuff in the pipeline, but this *should* prove to be interesting

Press release here and blog post here

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I’m always on the prowl for new, interesting, amusing or cool tshirts.

Some sites sell pretty amusing tshirts, but they don’t update their designs that often, so you can easily end up having bought all the designs you’re ever likely to.

Shot Dead In The Head fortunately isn’t like that and refresh their designs quite often

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