[clue-tech] Swapped memory with 1GB of RAM?

[Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:53:03 -0500, Angelo Bertolli
<angelo at freeshell.org> wrote:
> 
> > I'm surprised nobody else mentioned it yet, but there were some rather
> > high-profile exploits in the early 2.4.2x series that *could* have
> > allowed someone to compromise your system and installed a rootkit that
> > is eating up RAM without your knowledge.  You would be wise to keep that
> > kernel current anyway.
> 
> But wouldn't that have come up in ps?

Some rootkits / exploits will not show up in ps or top. 

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