From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 30 5:28:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shemp.palomine.net (shemp.palomine.net [216.135.64.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C75537B41A for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 05:28:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 99018 invoked by uid 1000); 30 Dec 2001 13:28:11 -0000 Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 08:28:11 -0500 From: Chris Johnson To: David Malone Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslogd blocking => can't su to root Message-ID: <20011230082811.A98988@palomine.net> References: <20011230081106.A98698@palomine.net> <20011230132325.A54667@walton.maths.tcd.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011230132325.A54667@walton.maths.tcd.ie>; from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie on Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 01:23:25PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --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