Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 18:24:00 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Load averages Message-ID: <20000926182359.P5065@speedy.gsinet> In-Reply-To: <20000925203603.A10466@buchanan-181-249.stures.iastate>; from kparz@cs.iastate.edu on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 08:36:03PM -0500 References: <20000925183854.A10200@buchanan-181-249.stures.iastate> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009251650450.10846-100000@dt051n37.san.rr.com> <20000925203603.A10466@buchanan-181-249.stures.iastate>
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On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 20:36 -0500, Krzysztof Parzyszek wrote:
>
> top actually said a lot... It turned out that iplog was
> consuming 98% of processor's time. Another question is: why?
> Anyway, I killed it and restarted it again and it runs fine
> now.
There used to be (still is?) a DoS for tcpdump by constructing
DNS packets with circular references. Capturing is not the
problem, but pretty printing (i.e. making readable display for
the user) is when you don't expect nonsense data from the
network. What you experience could be similar or absolutely
unrelated, but it shouldn't be a problem in -stable.
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