There were some issues with slow web page loading lately, so I looked at the logs and found some unusual entries:
Apr 4 05:59:51 - dnsmasq[3211]: forwarded qt-google-cloud-cdn.bronze.systems to 75.75.76.76
Apr 4 05:59:51 - dnsmasq[3211]: forwarded beacons.gvt2.com to 75.75.76.76
Apr 4 05:59:50 - kernel: UMSDOS: More than 9216 file in a directory.
Apr 4 05:59:50 - kernel: UMSDOS: More than 9216 file in a directory.
Apr 4 05:59:50 - kernel: This may break the mangling strategy.
Apr 4 05:59:50 - kernel: This may break the mangling strategy.
Apr 4 05:59:50 - kernel: Not a killer problem. See doc.
Apr 4 05:59:50 - kernel: Not a killer problem. See doc.
Apr 4 05:59:50 - dnsmasq[3211]: reply play-fe.googleapis.com is 142.250.72.206
Apr 4 05:59:50 - dnsmasq[3211]: reply clients.l.google.com is 142.251.46.174
I eventually located the directory ( /home/root/var) and was able to fix the issue; however, by by that time I’ve had several pages of logfiles with nothing else but:
Apr 4 07:34:10 - kernel: UMSDOS: More than 9216 file in a directory.
Apr 4 07:34:10 - kernel: This may break the mangling strategy.
Apr 4 07:34:10 - kernel: Not a killer problem. See doc.
Apr 4 07:34:10 - kernel: UMSDOS: More than 9216 file in a directory.
Apr 4 07:34:10 - kernel: This may break the mangling strategy.
Apr 4 07:34:10 - kernel: Not a killer problem. See doc.
repeated ad nauseam as per:
While I’m partly to blame for not setting up a cron job, the error itself led to the creation of additional logs, which exacerbated and perpetuated the issue….