From owner-freebsd-security Tue Mar 16 2:34:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from volodya.prime.net.ua (volodya.prime.net.ua [195.64.229.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6D19151A4 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 02:34:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andyo@prime.net.ua) Received: from prime.net.ua (localhost.prime.net.ua [127.0.0.1]) by volodya.prime.net.ua (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00442; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 12:39:03 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from andyo@prime.net.ua) Message-ID: <36EE34C4.BC482821@prime.net.ua> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 12:39:01 +0200 From: "Andy V. Oleynik" Organization: M-Info X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: ru, uk, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: shadow@kki.pl Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange behaviour ... References: <000601be6f8f$e8c9d360$ac0974c3@altair.kki.krakow.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org And what swapinfo says? Robert 'Shadow' Paj±k wrote: > Hey! > > Maybe some noticed similiar behaviour ... We're running FBSD 3.0-RELEASE at > our free server (over 80 thousands of ppl from Poland has e-mail and www > pages on it). > Few days ago we started to notice some strange behaviour - system was saing: > > Date, timestamp www /kernel: swap_pager: suggest more swap space: 254 MB > > But swap space is about 750 of MB! What is more interesting, that all this > actions > are being made at night! (3 a.m local time). What's more interesting that > swap is on new SCSI drive - when badsectors should not exist, and even if > they would be there they should be skipped by SCSI hardware. > > So, has anyone spotted sth similliar ? Or can system do any maintain tasks > at night which are not regarded in CronTab ? > > TIA, Shadow > > -- > Robert Paj±k (shadow@kki.pl) > KKI Administrator/Security Officer > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message -- WBW Andy V. Oleynik (safety sex apologet - no sex at all ö%-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message