It was around that time.
Thanks for your extremely speedy and helpful reply. I can stop panicking now!
On 4 January 2011 09:01, Andy Smith
<andy@bitfolk.com> wrote:
Hi Keith,
On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 08:33:04AM -0000, Keith Williams wrote:
> 4 Time(s): INFO: task fail2ban-server:2408 blocked for more than 120
> seconds.
If all of this happened around 23:45 then it will be due to the
short denial of service attack that was directed at us last night.
The hosts were spending all their CPU on the attack traffic and
virtually none on running VPSes, so many people's kernels will have
complained of blocked tasks.
> Does this suggest an imminent disaster? Or am I just panicking
It isn't a harmful situation as such, it's just notifying you of
tasks blocked inside the kernel. If it's from around the time
mentioned above then that explains that.
If it's from another time then it may suggest some sort of kernel
bug or extremely high load on your VPS.
Cheers,
Andy
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