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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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