John Allman wrote:
> I'm worried this may be indicative of a more serious problem. The
> system is running debian stable and every time i run grep it segfaults.
A look in dmesg revealed a lot of lines like:
__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
and at least one like:
ENOMEM in journal_get_undo_access_Red0c2a77
which looks like a memory problem. However the machine wasn't running
any crazy memory hogging processes (as revealed by top). I gave it a
reboot and it's all happy so i'm suspecting the culprit is dodgy ram.
I'll get new ram and keep my eye on it. Anyone think it might be
anything else? (few suggestions it's been pwned but i can't see any
evidence of that. it's a fairly secure system running few services and
is fully up to date. and chkrootkit (freshly downloaded) seems happy)
Thanks,
John
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