> > 5:43pm up 7 days, 23:43, 7 users, load average: 21.18, 12.64, 8.15
> >
> > so there was no surprise that nothing was working anymore, no getty, no
> > init.
> > I know it's a poor report, I don't have anything more. Do you have
> > any ideas about what was happening?
>
> Looks like someone ran a very very large process or set of them - your
> mail log show anything fun ?
Unfortunately, and very strange, syslog was down since midnight,
and he didn't bother to go up (and we haven't noticed).
But I remember something about a named error. Nothing very
obvious, I'm sorry. Was Friday 13th today? :-(
But as I said, no process looked funny to me, I have
double-checked this. A couple of pine's (this was what we usually do on
that machine), and the usual stuff. Nothing to look like a time-consuming
thing.
I'm still digging.
Mihai
Mihai Ibanescu Dynamic Network Technologies
http://sysadm.dntis.ro/~misa Moara de Foc 35, et. 7, 6600 Iasi
misa@dntis.ro tel. +40-32-252936