The Miner in ps Wasn’t Ollama, It Was a Container
A miner showed as user 'ollama' in ps, so I blamed the Ollama service for three days. It was a Postgres container whose UID collided with the host account.
A miner showed as user 'ollama' in ps, so I blamed the Ollama service for three days. It was a Postgres container whose UID collided with the host account.
A 381% CPU spike on my VPS was a crypto miner in a Docker container — not where I first looked. The three-day misdiagnosis, root cause, and fix.