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Re: Strange memory consumption
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, tuvia beker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm experiencing a very strange phenomenon on a RH4.1 system.
> No heavy processes are running, yet memory consumption is soaring, and the
> load is above 6.
[snip]
> Any idea regarding what's going on here will be appreciated.
If this is a networked machine check to see that it hasn't been root-kit'ed.
To do this, remove the disks and mount them on another (secure) machine
to see if any unexpected files or file systems show up.
However, I really suspect that there is a much more mundane explanation.
- yba
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