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Oct 23, 2019 at 5:23 comment added Kolt Penny /var/log/maillog-XXXXXXXX doesn't show anything relevant, but I did found some crontab processes that I forgot to remove months ago (that ran every minute :/). It didn't fix the lag, but it improved some other things. Still laggy because of sendmail. I'll keep looking into it.
Oct 23, 2019 at 5:12 comment added Rod Nintendeaux I would look into the /var/ folder for some sendmail log. See if it is eating up your resources trying to do something; the log can likely identify. Maybe it is stuck in a retreive mail or send mail loop or accessing a server and keeps failing only to try again and again. Your system shouldn't be freezing, especially Fedora 30.
Oct 23, 2019 at 5:05 comment added Kolt Penny It freezes every couple minutes for 3 to 5. Maybe I'm being picky, but it's very noticeable since it didn't use to do this. Thanks for the help, I appreciate it. Renaming the binary solves the issue but I need to find the real culprit... (not bash)
Oct 23, 2019 at 5:01 comment added Rod Nintendeaux I am not too familiar with that daemon. I usually find what I need with top in the terminal, then what I linked at first to determine what all it's coinciding with at that time. Do you have a beefy system, or it is truly slowing down your rig? On a side note, here is a process list I keep in my favorites; sorry I didn't link at first, I had to find it: link.
Oct 23, 2019 at 4:56 comment added Kolt Penny Thanks. This is the way bash is running the process /usr/bin/bash /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i -odi -oem -oi -t -f root
Oct 23, 2019 at 4:52 comment added Rod Nintendeaux Is it a system startup process? You can use pstree -or- ps -H -or- ps aux | grep sendmail -or- ps auxww | grep sendmail Let me play around a bit, see what I can find. You may want something deeper than I am thinking.
Oct 23, 2019 at 4:52 comment added Kolt Penny The next step is an entirely different issue, but your answer helped immensely. Cool name.
Oct 23, 2019 at 4:50 vote accept Kolt Penny
Oct 23, 2019 at 4:48 comment added Kolt Penny This is so intriguing... it says bash is being responsible for running this process...
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Oct 23, 2019 at 4:35 history answered Rod Nintendeaux CC BY-SA 4.0