Hi again, I'm struggling trying to get to the root of a possible problem with woody or the kernel. One of my up to date production machines show a very strange load average problem. Basically, the machine gradually builds up to a high LA and then abruptly at 6:30 in the morning this stops. It then builds up again, peaking just before 6:30 the next morning. I've done all sorts of traces - most of them using top that didn't show anything out of the ordinary. I've suspected that the machine might be hacked, but scanning through all of the processes in /proc, again nothing out of the ordinary. The only thing that I know is that sysklogd restarts about that time in the morning. I've checked and checked, and it definitely is not one of the user mode processes causing this.
uname -a: Linux newton 2.2.20 #1 Sat Apr 20 11:45:28 EST 2002 i686 unknown $> dpkg --list | grep sysklog ii sysklogd 1.4.1-10 System Logging Daemon Any ideas? Regards, Rudolph van Graan
