Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: SHMEM question | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:47:47 -0400 |
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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. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |