Syslogd is eating my CPU for breakfast

[John Ioannidis]

In article <2368 at cloud9.UUCP> you write:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 21, message 4 of 12
>
>Syslogd sometimes, rather mysteriously starts consuming an inordinate
>amount of CPU time, to the extent of driving up my load averages to
>unbelievable levels...

RTFM!  I'm quoting from the SunOS Release 4.0 READ THIS FIRST, page 3:

7. The symbol LOGHOST is not correctly defined by syslogd on loghost
machines.  This results in 100% CPU usage and syslod accumulating
large amounts of CPU time.

To prevent this problem insert the following line at the beginning of
/etc/syslogd.conf on loghost machines:

	define(LOGHOST, 1)

[[ My thanks to everyone else who has sent in (or will send in) similar
information.  --wnl ]]

/ji

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