> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 20:54:02 -0500
> From: "David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu>
> To: keltor@gower.net
> Cc: chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: Quota exceeded...
>
> From: "Stuart Stegall" <keltor@gower.net>
> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 19:49:21 -0600
>
> ok ... so we don't record messages if they happen more than once in
> a row ... besides if some program starts doing that ... isn't it
> gonna push system time up anyways ... checking the quota and all??
>
> The main problem with the console logs was that the console was over
> serial line at 9600 baud to an old vt220 (common in mass machine room
> configurations), so this is extremely touchy to verbose console
> messages.
Of course, you were only logging *.warn and higher to the console, right?
Otherwise you would get LOTS of crap from DNS, mail and POP/IMAP filling
your logs.
It still dosn't solve the problem of syslog taking 90% CPU time, however.
Much better to check once a day for people over soft but not to hard quota.
--Dan