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In article <DvnKC9.ABq@oriole.sbay.org>, grep@cris.com (George Bonser) wrote:

> Try this:
> 
> Upon first booting and without starting any programs that aren't
> started normally as part of the boot process, run a free command and
> not the amount of free memory. Then run this command every 30 seconds
> or so and see if the amount of free memory is diminishing. If so, you
> might have been hosed buy a naughty user who has sabotaged your
> system. Check VERY carefully in the cron area for crontabs that may
> have been built to kill your system. Do a careful ps and see if there
> are any processes running that you do not recall starting.
> 
Would this still be the case after I have reformatted the hard drive and
reinstalled a new kernel?? Surely I would of got rid of some tampering (if
that was the case) by doing this or not? 

That is exactly what does seem to happen mind you after I run a free
command regularly after boot up - the memory - all 24mb seems to diminish
gradually until I reboot and then it's OK again?

Besides tampering, what else could this relate to ?

Many thanks, Justine Humphry