From owner-freebsd-security Tue Mar 16 7:46:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from host07.rwsystems.net (kasie.rwsystems.net [209.197.192.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1C2715272 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 07:46:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jwyatt@RWSystems.net) Received: from kasie.rwsystems.net([209.197.192.103]) (2316 bytes) by host07.rwsystems.net via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 09:38:01 -0600 (CST) (Smail-3.2.0.104 1998-Nov-20 #1 built 1998-Dec-24) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 09:37:59 -0600 (CST) From: James Wyatt To: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Robert_'Shadow'_Paj=B1k?= Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange behaviour ... In-Reply-To: <000601be6f8f$e8c9d360$ac0974c3@altair.kki.krakow.pl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, [iso-8859-2] Robert 'Shadow' Paj±k wrote: > 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. I have had the 'daily' entry in /etc/crontab do something like this when I had zillions of files on a couple of largeish RAID filesystems. I had missed putting the directories in the /etc/locate.rc PRUNEPATHS line and it ran *way* out of sort room at about 03:00 or so. (Thanks again kward!) Have you checked /var/log/messages or dmesg for exceptions? The swapinfo command tells the normal swap setup at runtime. btw: If you want to find any commands related to 'something', just do an 'apropos [something]', like 'apropos swap'. It helps quite a bit if you are an infrequent sysadmin or cover several flavors of Unix. I would also recommend upgrading to 3.1-RELEASE as soon as possible. I do not know it's the problem, but 3.0-* had some issues. 3.0-* didn't go on anything but test/thrash machines here, though it worked fine there. We consider anything ending in '.0' as ready for final test. 8{) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message