fmbutt.UUCP@seismo.css.gov (Farooq Butt) (11/23/88)
Syslogd sometimes, rather mysteriously starts consuming an inordinate
amount of CPU time, to the extent of driving up my load averages to
unbelievable levels on a single user 3/60 running 4.0. The only way I have
found (short of killing syslogd) is to reboot and the problem vanishes
--to reappear later. Tell me people...am I going insane ?
Hating Syslogd and OS 4.0,
Farooq Butt ji@read.cs.columbia.edu (John Ioannidis) (12/04/88)
In article <2368@cloud9.UUCP> you write: >X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 21, message 4 of 12 > >Syslogd sometimes, rather mysteriously starts consuming an inordinate >amount of CPU time, to the extent of driving up my load averages to >unbelievable levels... RTFM! I'm quoting from the SunOS Release 4.0 READ THIS FIRST, page 3: 7. The symbol LOGHOST is not correctly defined by syslogd on loghost machines. This results in 100% CPU usage and syslod accumulating large amounts of CPU time. To prevent this problem insert the following line at the beginning of /etc/syslogd.conf on loghost machines: define(LOGHOST, 1) [[ My thanks to everyone else who has sent in (or will send in) similar information. --wnl ]] /ji In-Real-Life: John "Heldenprogrammer" Ioannidis Organization: GIP Altair [IN2-INRIA-LRI] P-Address: Domaine de Voluceau, BP 105 / Rocquencourt 78153 Le Chesnay / France V-Address: +33 1 39635417 E-Address: ...!mcvax!inria!bdblues!ji, ji@bdblues.altair.fr Alt-E-Address: ji@cs.columbia.edu