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		jellykid on Oct 4, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Perfctl: Stealthy malware targeting Linux servers Supposedly it tones down it's activity while a user is logged in and waits for the machine to go idle. Another reason to have centralized performance monitoring.

Gys on Oct 4, 2024 [–]

Yes, but tools like htop show the average load over the last 15 min. So I assume that will show a high utilization.

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