I am looking for some points on how to figure out what's going on with
system -- VALinux box with RedHat 6.2.1. (I installed Bastille quite a
while back with no incidents, fyi. It broke up my logs into separate logs
for things like the kernel, boot and login.) Tonight, I noticed that
whenever I was using Netscape to browse to a site, my disk was running
hard. I checked top and found that whenever I used Netscape to browse to
a URL, the syslogd cpu usage was up to 90%. Outside of Netscape, or
whenever the page finished loading, this syslogd usage went down to
nothing.
I restarted syslogd and nothing is acting up right now. I noticed,
however, in /var/log that the kernel log since last night has grown to 38
megabytes. The previous logs, rotated, were either 0 or around 29k for a
week! The kernel log has stopped logging data since I restarted
syslog. The kernel log has lots of entries such as:
Jan 15 21:04:19 localhost kernel: ppp: write frame, count = 64
Jan 15 21:04:19 localhost kernel: FF 03 00 21 45 00 00 3C ...!E..<
Jan 15 21:04:19 localhost kernel: 00 CC 40 00 40 06 6F 24 ..@.@.o$
Jan 15 21:04:19 localhost kernel: D1 FF 0E E3 40 39 A9 B0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jan 15 21:04:19 localhost kernel: 04 12 00 50 B9 53 48 84 ...P.SH.
Jan 15 21:04:19 localhost kernel: 00 00 00 00 A0 02 7D 78 ......}x
Jan 15 21:04:19 localhost kernel: 97 5E 00 00 02 04 05 B4 .^......
What happened? Has anyone encountered this type of thing and what
causes it? How do I correct it from happening again? Any advice,
suggestions, pointers to information to reach on how to
track what might be the cause of this changed behavior would be much
appreciated.
Gary Nielson
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