[ILUG] high load, high idle

[Vincent Cunniffe]

John P. Looney wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 10:34:36PM +0000, Vincent Cunniffe mentioned:
> 
>>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.
>>
> 
>  Really unlikely. This is on a machine that gets reinstalled once a week.
> Nasty trojan. Where does it come from ?

You have to exec a binary ;-)

Vin