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.
