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From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: "Robert 'Shadow' Paj?k" <shadow@kki.pl>
Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour ...
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In-Reply-To: <000601be6f8f$e8c9d360$ac0974c3@altair.kki.krakow.pl>; from Robert 'Shadow' Paj?k on Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 10:32:28AM +0100
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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.


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