Public bug reported: Walked away for a while and returned to find my system almost unusable. Something was causing the DISK I/O to go through the roof, the system constantly waiting, making it, as I said, almost unusable.
On some investigation, top indicated that egrep was consuming 6.7 GB of actual memory (of 8 GB total system RAM). Looking at the output of 'ps axf' showed 14 instances of chkrootkit and egrep's My system being DOS'd locally by chkrootkit... the irony is not lost on me. No idea why this happened, or even where to start wtih it, but I thought I'd at least open a bug and report what I could... but I had to reboot the system the hard way before I could even do that. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: chkrootkit 0.49-4ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Aug 17 20:34:52 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: chkrootkit UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-06-03 (75 days ago) ** Affects: chkrootkit (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug natty running-unity -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to chkrootkit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/828437 Title: chkrootkit cron job went nuts, spawned 14 instances and consumed nearly 90% of my ram To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chkrootkit/+bug/828437/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs