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Date:      Fri, 4 Dec 1998 20:17:05 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        scrappy@hub.org, ventrex.freebsd@UNDER.suspicion.org
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: syslogd@hub messages being broadcast...
Message-ID:  <199812040917.UAA16573@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>I usually see that when swap is about to completely fill up and the system
>is on it's way to a downward load/swap spiral. 

Perhaps it is caused by the broken line buffering in syslogd.  MAXLINE is
1024, so syslog will insert bogus line breaks whenever the message buffer
contains more than about 1024 characters.

Bruce

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