syslogd and bzip2 hogs after 6.3 to 7.0 upgrade

[Kris Kennaway]

Neil Darlow wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've caught bzip2 misbehaving. The following "top" output is for 
> compression of /var/log/messages (just over 100kB size) and it's not 
> finished yet:
> 
> 21172 root             1 118    0 11360K  8248K RUN     11:02 100.00% bzip2
> 
> Over 11 minutes, and still going, at 100% CPU. Now that's definitely not 
> right. Anyone else seeing this?

Again, it's not bzip2 that is your underlying problem.

Kris