post it on the centos bug tracker to start..:) listmail wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:56:45 -0700, John R Pierce wrote >> Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >>> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 2:48 PM, listmail <listmail at entertech.com> 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.] >>> >> its been ages since i've had to do this, but in years past, rkhunter >> was really good at finding rootkits like this. worst case, you put >> it on alive CD and run it from there. >> > OK, I downloaded the CentOS 5.2 Live CD and booted from it. To eliminate > load from the GUI, I forced the system into runlevel 3 and ran top. > I see the same problem; the load average sits at about 0.40 continuously. > This is with the ethernet drivers running, and it does not matter if the > network cables are plugged in or not. > > In my mind, that pretty much eliminates the possibility of a rootkit, unless > one was delivered with the Live CD. :-) So it looks like this is a bug > in either the Intel GLAN driver, or some other kernel timing issue. If anyone > can suggest where this bug should be reported and is likely to be addressed, > please let me know. I don't know myself who would be the correct party to > notify. > > Thanks to everyone who responded and helped me track this one down. I'm not > sure if should roll back to CentOS 5.0, or just try to live with this bug > until the maintainers address it, but at least I have some idea of what's > wrong. > > Thanks, > --Bill > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Registered Microsoft Partner My "Foundation" verse: Isa 54:17