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 1NWMLh-0002di-Qb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:02:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28096E08DD for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:02:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.osagesoftware.com (osagesoftware.com [216.144.204.42]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26905E078A for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:39:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from osage.osagesoftware.com (osage.osagesoftware.com [192.168.1.10]) by mail.osagesoftware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2EE77BC31 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:39:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:39:56 -0500 From: David Relson To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] MARK Message-ID: <20100116223956.6f42d5d0@osage.osagesoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <1263690714.8270.8.camel@centar> References: <20100116170849.20c9b96a@osage.osagesoftware.com> <1263690714.8270.8.camel@centar> Organization: Osage Software Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4 (GTK+ 2.16.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f8b0b580-71f3-43cc-a65f-3a671cdc8566 X-Archives-Hash: 6f4023eb973a6f21a78575ddd3057f3e On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:11:54 -0500 Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 17:08 -0500, David Relson wrote: > > From /var/log/messages: > > > > Jan 16 01:35:27 osage -- MARK -- > > Jan 16 01:55:37 osage -- MARK -- > > Jan 16 02:15:44 osage -- MARK -- > > Jan 16 02:35:52 osage -- MARK -- > > Jan 16 02:55:58 osage -- MARK -- > > > Anybody know what a "--- MARK ---" message mean?? > > It's just your syslog popping in occasionally and saying "Hey, I'm > still alive!" Notice that it occurs (almost) exactly every 20 > minutes. Kind of like syslog saying "nobody told me to log anything, so I'll log something to show I (at the least) am still OK. > So you probably need to look elsewhere to diagnose your problem. I suspect some sort of interaction between the 2 known/suspected heavy users -- VirtualBox and BackupPC. Guess it's time for a monitor to snapshot system status every 5 minutes so that if/when the problem occurs again, there's some info to look at.