[ale] Memory leak (hacked?)

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

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.

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
Building secure systems in spite of Microsoft