On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 2:48 PM, listmail <listmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am running CentOS 5 on a dual-dual-core Intel machine, and I am seeing
> a load average of between 0.35 and 0.50 while the machine is idle, i.e.
> no processes appear to be running.
>
Download the livecd and boot using it. See if the load average still
occurs. Check to see if you have any traffic occuring on the network
from the system. [I had a box that was kernel trojaned that had a load
average all the time when it was on the wire and did not when it
didn't. The kernel trojan was looking for a particular bit of traffic
that would open up its backdoor to.]
--
Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"
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