From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 26 12:15:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ACDA637B424 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 12:15:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 17176 invoked by uid 0); 26 Sep 2000 19:15:35 -0000 Received: from p3ee21617.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO speedy.gsinet) (62.226.22.23) by mail.gmx.net with SMTP; 26 Sep 2000 19:15:35 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by speedy.gsinet (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA20700 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 18:24:00 +0200 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 18:24:00 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Load averages Message-ID: <20000926182359.P5065@speedy.gsinet> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20000925183854.A10200@buchanan-181-249.stures.iastate> <20000925203603.A10466@buchanan-181-249.stures.iastate> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000925203603.A10466@buchanan-181-249.stures.iastate>; from kparz@cs.iastate.edu on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 08:36:03PM -0500 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 20:36 -0500, Krzysztof Parzyszek wrote: > > top actually said a lot... It turned out that iplog was > consuming 98% of processor's time. Another question is: why? > Anyway, I killed it and restarted it again and it runs fine > now. There used to be (still is?) a DoS for tcpdump by constructing DNS packets with circular references. Capturing is not the problem, but pretty printing (i.e. making readable display for the user) is when you don't expect nonsense data from the network. What you experience could be similar or absolutely unrelated, but it shouldn't be a problem in -stable. virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message