In article <CAMJXocmTJMweKGyf=xzh_-wr+do+rpmvdoear3eygd5ucvj...@mail.gmail.com>, el kalin <[email protected]> wrote: >-=-=-=-=-=- > >hi all... > >i have a netbsd 6 on ec2 (aws - amazon web services) like: >NetBSD 6.0 NetBSD 6.0 (XEN3_DOMU) amd64 > >every now and then - usually early morning between 3 and 4 am - the machine >reboots itself and there is no other indication why except the below long >string of garbage in the email log⦠> >my guess is that for whatever reason part of the actual incoming message is >somehow intended to be written to the log file. i did try to look at the >base64 encoded string after all the ^@s but it's not text. > >the machine uses default postfix setup and the mail is routed trough >procmail for certain addresses. > >this used to happened more often before i made the ec2 instance bigger. now >it's m1.large and apparently it's still happening from time to time. before >i made it bigger the log wasn't containing any base64 string. i remember >seeng the ^@s but not the string... > >any ideas of what that might be?!
Do you have DDB in your kernel? Is there anything in the messages file? Can you run vmstat 1 in a window, and see what happens? christos
