Re: Strange Load Average patterns
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Hi Rudolph,
I had a similar problem at one stage ....
I had the syslogd set up to forward everything to a loghost
But I forgot an old entry in the /etc/hosts that was pointing to the localhost
It showed up as HUGE log files in /var/log and high LA's
Hope this helps
Jan.
On Thursday 08 May 2003 6:33 pm, Rudolph van Graan wrote:
: Hi again,
:
: I'm struggling trying to get to the root of a possible problem with
: woody or the kernel. One of my up to date production machines show a
: very strange load average problem. Basically, the machine gradually
: builds up to a high LA and then abruptly at 6:30 in the morning this
: stops. It then builds up again, peaking just before 6:30 the next
: morning. I've done all sorts of traces - most of them using top that
: didn't show anything out of the ordinary. I've suspected that the
: machine might be hacked, but scanning through all of the processes in
: /proc, again nothing out of the ordinary. The only thing that I know is
: that sysklogd restarts about that time in the morning. I've checked and
: checked, and it definitely is not one of the user mode processes causing
: this.
:
: uname -a:
:
: Linux newton 2.2.20 #1 Sat Apr 20 11:45:28 EST 2002 i686 unknown
:
: $> dpkg --list | grep sysklog
: ii sysklogd 1.4.1-10 System Logging Daemon
:
: Any ideas?
:
: Regards,
:
: Rudolph van Graan
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