2008/6/4 Steve Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm really no security expert. I don't leave the system up 24/7, and > I'm on a US DSL connection with a bunch of windows boxes. > > Seems to be a recent phenomena, I've started experiencing disk > thrashing I can hear across the room. ps and top report cvslockd has > been responsible for the thrashing (which usually occurs at a specific > time of day (~1 am MST)), but now, find is doing the thrashing at boot > every time (within the last week at least). Needless to say, I > haven't changed the system in any way during that week. On windows, > I'd just assume this to be normal behavior, but on FreeBSD, it's got > me worried... > I doubt that this is a security issue, but I think you've a silent filesystem corruption. Best thing to do would be to boot to single user and check all filesystems manually to make sure that there isn't anything that goes unnoticed.
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