From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 22 13:08:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 444CD37B401 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:08:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CC9143F85 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:08:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h6MK8BTN097067; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:08:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:08:11 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Steve Warwick Message-ID: <20030722200811.GI94261@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel about to crash? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 20:08:27 -0000 In the last episode (Jul 22), Steve Warwick said: > My daily security run is starting to show pieces of the kernel config > file it's kernel log messages - when this happens the OS starts to > use up more and more swap space too. Last time this happened I let it > go and the server went down so I have been rebooting if I see this > happening and avoid the crash. It seems to take about 25-30 days for > this to occur. > > Has anyone seen this before? > > > -- excerpts from security run output --- > > la.servername.com kernel log messages: > > initialized, divert disabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to > accept, > logging limited to 100 packets/entry by default > > > la.servername.com kernel log messages: > > rom ufs:/dev/ad0s1a All that means is your dmesg buffer is rolling over. It doesn't affect the rest of the system. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com