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Jason Wright wrote:
>
> I came home to find my workstation thrashing - errors are appended to this
> message. Kerneld was consuming over 50meg of memory, so I bounced it,
> which seems to have cleared the problem up.
I saw exactly the same warnings on my Linux box three days ago (running
debian-unstable at the latest level, with Debian kernel 2.0.30-9
replaced by my own self-made 2.0.32 kernel). The box became more and
more slow, and eventually did not respond at all. I had to press on the
reset button :/
Dec 3 21:41:17 demon kernel: Warning: possible SYN flood from
195.0.100.253 on 194.78.79.73:21666. Sending cookies.
Dec 3 21:41:22 demon kernel: validated probe(195.0.100.253:5708,
194.78.79.73:21666, 536524169)
Dec 3 21:41:39 demon kernel: validated probe(194.78.79.71:2397,
194.78.79.73:21666, -1494314061)
Dec 3 21:42:11 demon kernel: validated probe(132.206.150.30:10325,
194.78.79.73:21666, -1224464230)
(and so on until crash)
Alain
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