From: Vincent Cunniffe (vincent at domain cunniffe.net)
Date: Thu 09 Aug 2001 - 11:32:58 IST
John P. Looney wrote:
> I'm having performance problems with a machine. Big ones. For some
> reason, the load is between 1.5 and 6, though the "idle" as reported by
> top is around 60%. Any idea how I can find out what's being blocked, and
> how ?
On a side note, this is a similar set of result from the installation
of a trojan kernel module, which hides all other traces of itself
but can be detected by things such as external portmaps and a high
resting load on the machine.
Unlikely, but you can find details on a recent (<1 week old) Bugtraq
posting.
Vin
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