SysLog

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=== ignorance /usr/sbin/syslogd ===
I used to see this on one node - very occasionally. That is a program 
that logs messages generated by the kernel and other applications 
running on the MeshAP. What tipped me off was the CPU temp of the node 
was spiking. This is "getting stuck" - which is no big deal.
Instead of rebooting - which is the brute force way to handle it, I 
would log into the node and stop, then restart the program. I forget 
the location of the program on the OSS, but I seem to remember the 
command was syslog stop, then syslog start.
> last nite i noticed that the load on one of my nodes began reporting 
> up over 60% load in wiana. I ssh'd into it and ran a top, everything 
> looked basically normal, and the node was up and running fine but the 
> following process:
 
> /usr/sbin/syslogd
 
> was using 40% of the cpu. rebooted and all has been well since, but i 
> was wondering if anyone had ever seen this happen and what might have 
> caused it.