What is process <pve-ip>-manager

saeid.nazari

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I have created a number of Ubuntu 22.04 VMs in proxmox, and I have also defined shared disks which are mounted, with fstab (shown below). The issue is that on one of the VMs I see a process which looks like this 172.16.1.7-manager, which is <pve-ip>-manager, i.e,. 172.16.1.7 is the ip for pve which also used when extern storage are created on and used as devices which is moutnted in all VMs

When you do grep you see some thing like this:
ps -ef | grep "172.16.1.7-manager"
root 3557119 2 0 14:36 ? 00:00:00 [172.16.1.7-manager]

The process is getting created continuously, with a new pid and the problem is that you cannot find out about the owner of the process, or find out about the program starting it or killing it.

Is there any one who has seen this or can tell me what this process is and why this is generated, and how to get rid of this.
My guess is this process started when a program, for example, git clone is writing during update file, i.e., writing on a disk which is mounted using fstab with this type of entry:

grep "172.16.1.7" /etc/fstab
172.16.1.7:/StorageWorkspaces/workspaces /workspaces nfs defaults 0 0
 
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