On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:06:02AM -0500, michelle wrote: > Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > > > What CPU? How much memory? What speed memory? What sort of disks > > (bus type, speed, etc.)? What does 'hdparm /dev/hda' report? > > > > It sounds like you're hitting a bottleneck in the hardware > > configuration. > > > > Pentium 4, 2.1 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 200 MHz RAM > IDE Bus, 400 MHz system bus > IDE cable supports UDMA-33 and ATA-66/100 > The hard disk supports pio 1-4, dma through mdma 1-4 and udma 1-5 > nVidia TNT2 AGP video card > > booting single user in 80x25 text mode gives still gives me the hard disk > acces on each keypress. > > Oh yeah, I'm using sarge with various kernels (2.2.20, 2.4.22, 2.6.0-test9, > 2.6.0-test11) all giving the same results. Previously, woody was on this > machine, and this problem didn't occur. > > Is there a configuration file somewhere that sets the amount of memory to > use for the bash shell? If so, what is it? And could it be set to something > absurdly small? > > Or is this perhaps from a keylogger secretly installed? If so, how could I > detect it? >
Its a bit of a dirty hack and I'm not sure if it will show you the culprit if its actually a trojan, but the laptop mode patch (its in 2.4.23 since pre4 and there is a patch against 2.4.22) has a proc entry in /proc/sys/vm/block_dump which prints out all disk access (you should disable syslog if you use it). I think that in the original implementation though its disabled when laptop mode is not enabled, but not sure. If you are interested in it I could isolate out that part of the patch. > Thank you. > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
