Re: hard disk access on every keystroke in console mode!
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> booting single user in 80x25 text mode gives still gives me the hard disk
> acces on each keypress.
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> Oh yeah, I'm using sarge with various kernels (2.2.20, 2.4.22, 2.6.0-test9,
> 2.6.0-test11) all giving the same results. Previously, woody was on this
> machine, and this problem didn't occur.
>
> Is there a configuration file somewhere that sets the amount of memory to
> use for the bash shell? If so, what is it? And could it be set to something
> absurdly small?
>
> Or is this perhaps from a keylogger secretly installed? If so, how could I
> detect it?
>
Have you tried booting from a 'clean' disk/cd. How about trying
something like booting knoppix or tomsrtbt? Does it happen then?
Lou
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