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SubjectRe: Strange syslogd behavior under 2.2.10 and 2.2.11
Hi Gregory.

> Experiencing a strange thing with syslogd under 2.2.10 and
> 2.2.11 (at least this is the first I have noticed it). At
> apparently random times, the disk starts grinding and syslogd
> sucks up 100% of all cpu cycles. After about a minute
> everything settles down again and the cpu usage drops down to
> normal for syslogd. But, after a short time (maybe an hour),
> this same thing happens again. Any ideas?

That 'about an hour' sounds too much like cron to me, so I'd suggest
you look through the various cron jobs configured on your system.
Start with the contents of /etc/cron.hourly/ as the obvious starting
point...

Best wishes from Riley.

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