[BlueOnyx:07933] Re: BlueOnyx 5107R Beta available

[Steven Howes]

On 1 Aug 2011, at 06:12, User Ernie wrote:
> 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.

Can you check the admin email account? Cron outputs some stuff there, may be worth a look. Mine is not doing this, so I don't believe this to be that widespread.

S