[ale] Memory leak (hacked?)

[Dow Hurst]

My wife's box has those in the logs sporadically.  Every distro of SuSE I've 
tried so far still generates those.  I believe it is the motherboard hardware 
and the ethernet module that generates them.  Cheap hardware most likely.  It 
isn't sign of being hacked.  Under heavy load it increases.

Now if you've got a hidden module inserted by a cracker then you may not know 
what is going on and the heavier load of whatever he/she is serving could 
increase the messages or start them.  So it could show your hacked.

Just wanted to let you know that the message happens on other machines.
Dow


David Corbin wrote:
> 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.
> 

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