Re: syslogd taking up lots of CPU..

1997-12-12 Thread James A . Treacy
> Hm. For some reason, today, syslogd started taking up more than its > share of CPU. (About 20% on a P200.) > I wonder if this is related to a problem I've been having recently. Every console has been getting messages like the following at random times > Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Thu Dec

Re: syslogd taking up lots of CPU..

1997-12-12 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Ben" == Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> EAGAIN doesn't mean out of disk space. The gnu libc manual Ben> says this: Ben> * A temporary resource shortage made an operation Ben> impossible. `fork' can return this error. You know, I'll bet it was the gli

Re: syslogd taking up lots of CPU..

1997-12-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
That EAGAIN disturbs me. We're not even close to being out of disk space; what could be causing this? EAGAIN doesn't mean out of disk space. The gnu libc manual says this: - Macro: int EAGAIN Resource temporarily unavailable; the call might work if you try again later. The macr

syslogd taking up lots of CPU..

1997-12-11 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Hm. For some reason, today, syslogd started taking up more than its share of CPU. (About 20% on a P200.) I did an strace on the process, and saw lots of stuff like this: read(21, "<22>Dec 11 16:03:34 cucipop[3129"..., 1024) = 72 time([881885014]) = 881885014 writev(4, [{"Dec