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From: abrams@max.bnl.gov (The Ancient Programmer)
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Subject: Re: SunOS 4.0 on 4/110 problem
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Date: 17 Jun 89 21:16:08 GMT
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In article <20036@adm.BRL.MIL> MATHRICH@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel UMC Math Department) writes:
>Has anyone seen this:  For no apparent reason, the cpu performance meter
>starts pegging out.  PS indicates that syslogd is hogging 90%+ of the cpu.
>Rebooting seems to be the only fix.
>
>Help?
>Rich



	Check your /etc/syslog.conf file. The first line must be
		define(LOGHOSTS, 1)
If it's not, syslog will hog the cpu. There is a bug in the 4.0 build procedure
that fails to insert this line.  This is documented somewhere, but I can't 
recall where at the moment.

<karl>

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