Troubleshooting GT.M

Since GT.M is a Just-In-Time Compiler generating native code, it loads a data segment with executable machine language code and then calls that code as a subroutine. Unfortunately, this is the behaviour of some computer worms as well. There is a group of security programs that kill any processes using this technique shortly after the code starts to execute.

One set of commands to disable these security programs is:

  echo 0 >/proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield
  echo 0 >/proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield-randomize

Again, your mileage may vary, and this may cause your computer to not do all that it is supposed to do.