From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 8 11:31:55 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB4CE106566C for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:31:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 184C18FC14; Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:31:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <47D2792A.9000908@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:31:54 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Macintosh/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neil Darlow References: <47D2670D.3020108@darlow.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <47D2670D.3020108@darlow.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslogd and bzip2 hogs after 6.3 to 7.0 upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:31:55 -0000 Neil Darlow wrote: > Hi, > > I've caught bzip2 misbehaving. The following "top" output is for > compression of /var/log/messages (just over 100kB size) and it's not > finished yet: > > 21172 root 1 118 0 11360K 8248K RUN 11:02 100.00% bzip2 > > Over 11 minutes, and still going, at 100% CPU. Now that's definitely not > right. Anyone else seeing this? Again, it's not bzip2 that is your underlying problem. Kris