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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SHMEM question
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:47:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19654.1256586467@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:59:04 EDT." <200910261159.04995.gene.heskett@verizon.net>

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On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:59:04 EDT, Gene Heskett said:

> -r-------- 1 root root 67108904 2009-10-24 00:28 pulse-shm-3880918577

> That pulse-shm-3880918577 file at over 67 megabytes is all $00 till $04000000 
> into it, then there is 6 non-zero bytes and the rest is back to all balls.
> 
> Is this some indicator of a new rootkit or WTF?

No, it's pulseaudio.  It uses shared mem to move audio data between client
programs and the pulseaudio server.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-26 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-26 15:59 Gene Heskett
2009-10-26 17:00 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-10-26 19:47 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2009-10-27 13:25 ` Gabor Gombas

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