[BlueOnyx:07931] Re: BlueOnyx 5107R Beta available

[User Ernie]

Following on from my previous email about abnormal swap usage on two
machines, I found the culprit, there were 999 swathc precesses running. eg.

root      1799  0.0  0.2   8176  5784 ?        Ss   14:00   0:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/sausalito/perl /usr/sbin/swatch -c /etc/swatch.conf
root      1913  0.0  0.2   8176  5832 ?        Ss   14:15   0:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/sausalito/perl /usr/sbin/swatch -c /etc/swatch.conf
root      2035  0.0  0.2   8176  5788 ?        Ss   14:30   0:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/sausalito/perl /usr/sbin/swatch -c /etc/swatch.conf
root      2119  0.0  0.2   8176  5788 ?        Ss   14:45   0:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/sausalito/perl /usr/sbin/swatch -c /etc/swatch.conf
root      2177  0.0  0.2   8176  5832 ?        Ss   15:00   0:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/sausalito/perl /usr/sbin/swatch -c /etc/swatch.conf


As you can see they are spawing from cron at 15min intervals until swap is exhausted.

I can't see any errors in the cron log.

This is happening on two servers, both are pretty much clean installs for testing purposes. Have rebooted checked for yum updates etc.

- Ernie.