syslogd and bzip2 hogs after 6.3 to 7.0 upgrade

[Mel]

On Thursday 06 March 2008 13:14:02 Neil Darlow wrote:

> I've rebooted the system and watched cron execute newsyslog to rotate
> the logs. I have a bzip2 process that's consuming over 90% of CPU. That
> can't be normal?

It's normal.
It's not normal if the files don't get compressed.

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.