May it be you are under attack (Denial of Service)?
You should check your network statistics (netstat) and eventually filter
the attacker ip from your firewall.
Stefano
Nathan Cheng wrote:
Meanwhile, the "connections" log is going nuts, writing the same set of
"Maximum number of open connections exceeded - refusing connection"
messages over and over at a rate of 10MB per 3 minutes or so:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10485738 Apr 22 12:38
connections-2006-04-22-12-28.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10485901 Apr 22 12:42
connections-2006-04-22-12-38.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10485974 Apr 22 12:46
connections-2006-04-22-12-42.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10485856 Apr 22 12:49
connections-2006-04-22-12-46.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10485895 Apr 22 12:53
connections-2006-04-22-12-49.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10485957 Apr 22 12:56
connections-2006-04-22-12-53.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10485832 Apr 22 12:58
connections-2006-04-22-12-56.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10485985 Apr 22 13:01
connections-2006-04-22-12-58.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10485979 Apr 22 13:03
connections-2006-04-22-13-01.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10485818 Apr 22 13:04
connections-2006-04-22-13-03.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10485955 Apr 22 13:06
connections-2006-04-22-13-04.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10485911 Apr 22 13:08
connections-2006-04-22-13-06.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10485815 Apr 22 13:11
connections-2006-04-22-13-08.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8468986 Apr 22 13:13
connections-2006-04-22-13-11.log
Time now is Apr 22 13:13.
I've got netstat dumps if anyone wants to take a look.
I was right about it taking 10 more minuts or so, as I type, James just
woke up.
Anybody got any clue?
Thanks,
Nathan
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