Re: [Fail2ban-users] Fail2Ban high cpu usage

[Nils B. (Lemonbit) <ni...@le...>]

Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:

>> I set loglevel = 4 in fail2ban.conf and I noticed this in the log  
>> after restarting fail2ban:
>>  fail2ban.filter : DEBUG  Date 0 is smaller than 1192595290.0
> That is normal if you get such a message once per file at the  
> beginning
> since the file was never checked before during the lifespan of a given
> fail2ban-server process ;-)
>
> BUT if keep getting such messages - then smth is weird and previousely
> it boiled down to some desync in time reported by the daemon and  
> system
> time.

No, I don't keep getting those messages. The log looks pretty normal  
otherwise.

>> That seems strange to me somehow, but I have no idea where to  
>> further investigate this.
>> are just a handful of users. Does this kind of cpu load seem  
>> unusual to you?
> yeah... it is too high...
>
> but what do you have in your fail2ban.log after you have restarted the
> server with verbosity debug -- could you simply email it?

I will send you the log file.

Nils.