[Techtalk] klogd using 99% CPU

[Jennifer Hamilton]

It's strange that rebooting didn't work, but restarting syslog did,
since syslog is restarted when you boot. Perhaps there's something in
the boot process that is causing the hang. 

Does the problem occur again if you reboot it again? Try killing the
syslogd process and restart it with the -d (debug) option. This will
make it not go into the background and you can study any output. What
happens if you put the -d option for syslog in the /etc/init.d/syslogd
startup file (that is the debian location, your startup file may exist
elsewhere) and reboot it?  

Jen


-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Wheeler [mailto:Dennis.Wheeler at PictureIQ.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 4:58 PM
To: Jennifer Hamilton; 'techtalk Linuxchix '
Cc: Dennis Wheeler
Subject: RE: [Techtalk] klogd using 99% CPU


 
I rebooted the machine and it still had the problem. But a friend of
mine
had me restart syslog something, and I haven't had the problem since
(that I
know of).

When it was having the problem, it didn't appear to be writing to any
logs
that I could find.

I'll have to wait and see if it happens again.

-- dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Jennifer Hamilton
To: Dennis Wheeler; techtalk Linuxchix
Sent: 8/21/01 10:36 AM
Subject: RE: [Techtalk] klogd using 99% CPU

What state does it show it's in when you do a ps auxww? Does it happen
every time? Do the logs say anything about it? What else is running that
could be causing it to use a lot of CPU?

Jen

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Wheeler [mailto:dennis.wheeler at pictureiq.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 10:13 AM
To: techtalk Linuxchix
Subject: [Techtalk] klogd using 99% CPU



What would cause klogd to suddenly start using all my CPU cycles?

A search on google suggest I should just update to a newer version, and
other links points to some problem with the 3c59x ethernet driver (which
is what I think I have).

But this machine has been running for a year or more without this
problem, and I have another machine with the same hardware and Linux
distribution that doesn't have this problem.

Where do I start looking for the apparent sudden cause?

-- dennis

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