From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NABa3-000301-4G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:05:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC27EE0B83 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:05:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.145]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8AB4E07EF for ; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:15:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so1507157eyg.2 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:15:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=tiHMC1s92xOEmTyOA7POXj5lOHqCOFuYbYFNRAZxlP0=; b=vv8HiooljvGHadLq67lK+9QEXrFvHFTfhhqPCAucL5tbncq0yvU6T7A0apSXORv5b0 xnSqfIcFPuXJPpccfW7GgpveitUoo83WyAV9kXcsa0+grBFjPz3SlMWjVBtMURkM0Q7C qoquRENKyl5RDLtlsDMxEv+8ZN+IkHjuV6md4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=tn66vQo8NdEVSZNTK89iu4ohpkzX05t7hTTi+a9Dc/20g7p1vGU2rd56QV/AHVP4+S WGJK0N8aUJ40gTPUujLp8VSQtqsNBpARLBhjyJfZN6Y5B1h14EobjwqIAWkgkpdKqYsM IorXlvKu8o8RYN1P4xSTTnbRTdKAB/DJRN5WU= Received: by 10.213.23.78 with SMTP id q14mr1945966ebb.80.1258409740218; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:15:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-114-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.114]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm2131248eyg.46.2009.11.16.14.15.38 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:15:39 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages... Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:14:35 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.90 (Linux/2.6.31-zen7; KDE/4.3.75; x86_64; ; ) References: <4AFEB84B.2010107@gmail.com> <200911161947.08788.wonko@wonkology.org> <4B01B167.4020109@ep.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <4B01B167.4020109@ep.mine.nu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200911170014.35866.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 603e9ccf-c64a-41f9-b9f1-1a76f6013475 X-Archives-Hash: c3fea71645ac2f35568e9c454d4b7a00 On Monday 16 November 2009 22:09:11 Neil Walker wrote: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > I just let it grow and grow and grow... on my server, which is running > > Gentoo for seven years now, it has 27,000 entries, and is at 24 MB. > > Wow! Do you even need a server? It can't be doing much. My servers top that > in a few hours. ;) I have to ask - what the blazes are those servers doing??? :-) My main shell/jump box has 400-odd users and routinely runs 600+ concurrent ssh sessions. wtmp averages about 1M and 1400 entries a day -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com