Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 08:28:11 -0500 From: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslogd blocking => can't su to root Message-ID: <20011230082811.A98988@palomine.net> In-Reply-To: <20011230132325.A54667@walton.maths.tcd.ie>; from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie on Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 01:23:25PM %2B0000 References: <20011230081106.A98698@palomine.net> <20011230132325.A54667@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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--XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 01:23:25PM +0000, David Malone wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 08:11:06AM -0500, Chris Johnson wrote: > > no syslogd expert, but I suspect that some buffer that syslogd writes t= o is > > full, so it's blocking, so su blocks waiting for syslogd to accept its > > message (or something vaguely along those lines). >=20 > Can you run top and find the syslogd line and see what state it is in? It looks like this: $ top 100 | grep syslog 190 root 4 0 932K 556K ttywai 0:02 0.00% 0.00% syslogd Thanks! Chris --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8LxZqyeUEMvtGLWERAtZeAJ0VGV+ETp/eTfk+8Sxzz43Nu4aaCACdFXdZ EgXLiIADJGQa4SdlMzydhBA= =a/OY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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