Re: Slow linux server

[Sean /The RIMBoy/ <sean@rimboy.com>]

On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Alan Wilson wrote:

> Yep, did that.  Well actually the reason for the reboot was the change of ip
> address.  I noticed that mars_nwe was sucking up a whole bunch --> don't know
> why I installed that; I never configured it.  I killed it and it went up to
> the 70 or 80 % idle.  The stuff the was consuming the cyles was me (my bash
> shell, top, etc)

Probably because someone was trying to use the recent exploit for it
(Mars_nwe).  Check RH errata on that, I dont run it myself, hence I dont
have too much reason to keep up with it.

Sean...

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