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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Eugene, </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Seeing that's when the daily cron takes place, maybe one of the daily cron tasks. Are you running any other utilities (like sysstat) that might give you more information.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>If the tasks that run at 4:am are intensive, you will see latency. If those tasks require DNS lookups, then it would explain the incrase in traffic.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>That's where I'd start looking.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gary</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> pdns-users-bounces@mailman.powerdns.com on behalf of Eugene Pefti<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wed 5/7/2008 2:43 PM<BR><B>To:</B> pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Pdns-users] Strange activity at 4 a.m. <BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Hi folks,<BR><BR>I would appreciate if somebody could give a hint about what could be<BR>happening at 4 am in the morning with the server.<BR><A href="http://ns1.w3media.net/recursor/">http://ns1.w3media.net/recursor/</A><BR>This is a graph for it and as one can see there's a hell of activity and a<BR>significant increase in delays. I have only two tasks scheduled to run at 4<BR>am in the morning and they are just log rotation and updated processes. They<BR>don't take even a minute to run.<BR><BR>Eugene <BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Pdns-users mailing list<BR>Pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com<BR><A href="http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users">http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users</A><BR></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>