Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 11:51:23 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Robert 'Shadow' Paj?k" <shadow@kki.pl> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange behaviour ... Message-ID: <19990316115123.E3196@bitbox.follo.net> In-Reply-To: <000601be6f8f$e8c9d360$ac0974c3@altair.kki.krakow.pl>; from Robert 'Shadow' Paj?k on Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 10:32:28AM %2B0100 References: <000601be6f8f$e8c9d360$ac0974c3@altair.kki.krakow.pl>
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On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 10:32:28AM +0100, 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 ? I'm not quite certain what you're trying to say here, but it is common for some of the night jobs to take quite a bit of memory. Are you certain you don't have a user that runs this through his crontab or similar? Info from top or ps might also prove interesting. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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