[ale] Memory leak (hacked?)

[David Corbin]

On Wednesday 07 April 2004 07:40, Geoffrey wrote:
> David Corbin wrote:
> > I have had my public server develop a sudden memory leak.   (Honest -
> > it is sudden - I've done nothing to that system recently).  I keep
> > ending up with the following kernel message: __alloc_pages: 0-order
> > allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0)  repeatedly.
> >
> > When I reboot this morning, I watch top, and sure enough, you could
> > see the memory steadily creeping upwards.  This happens even when I
> > boot into single user mode, and have ridiculously free processes:
>
> Tried running top to see what is eating up your memory?  After starting
> top enter 'M' (that's uppercase m) and it will sort by memory usage.
> You should be able to identify the memory hog.

Yes, I did, but I don't see anything growing in an individual process. Only 
the total memory uses is growing.

I have noticed some "Spurious 8259A Interrupt IRQ 7" messages showing up on 
the console.

-- 
David Corbin <dcorbin at machturtle.com>