On Feb 5, 2008 11:05 AM, Reid Rivenburgh <reidr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > One additional irritation with this is that I'm not getting tons of > lines like this in /var/log/messages: > > Feb 5 11:03:20 pigpen kernel: scsi 24:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device > > So many that rsyslogd is using 50% of my CPU! I'm not sure how to get > that to stop, so I may need to reboot..... For the record, these messages were only being written while I was running e2fsck. Once I stopped, rsyslogd calmed down. The drive wasn't mounted at the time, so I'm not sure why that was the case.... reid