[mdlug] Ever increasing resolv.conf file

[Aaron Kulkis]

R KANNAN wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I had some strange problems while booting my laptop on Suse 10.1 and I
> found it kept hanging. When I tried to login as root, it will hang.
> 
> Checking 'top' I found that there were a number of 'sed' processes
> hogging the system resources.
> 
> Then I ran 'fsck' on all the mounted systems (reiserfs and xfs) and
> they came out negative for errors.
> 
> Then I found that the sizes of 'resolv.conf' and
> 'resolv.conf.saved.by.dhcpd.eth0' to be 700 MB each in length. SuSE
> seems to be adding more and more comment lines of the form
> 
> #
> ### END INFO
> 
> to this file whenever I connect to the network and backing it up as
> 'resolv.conf.saved.by.dhcpd.eth0'. I wonder if this is the cause of
> the hang ups.
> 
> I turned it off by setting  'MODIFY_RESOLV_CONF_DYNAMICALLY="no" in
> /etc/sysconfig/network/config. This seemed to have resolved the problem.
> 
> Surprising I could not find this issue by googling.

Don't know, but SuSE 10.1 hasn't been current since the
fall of 2006, and SuSE stopped supplying patches and
updates for it in 2007.  You should probably update
your system -- there's been a lot of water under the
bridge -- in terms of vulnerability patches, etc.
since then.