[Techtalk] klogd using 99% CPU

Dennis Wheeler dennis.wheeler at pictureiq.com
Tue Aug 28 12:02:52 EST 2001


I can't get it to happen again, but now I have a clue as to where to
start looking if it ever does start again.

Thanks
-- dennis

Jennifer Hamilton wrote:
> 
> 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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