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Old 22nd June 2009
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This is syslog's way of saving time/cycles. Instead of having to generate a timestamp for each repeated message, and writing each repeated message to disk, and slowing things down, if it detects more than a couple repeated log messages, it just tallies them instead.

Check /var/log/messages to find the line right above the "repeat x times" line. That will show you what is happening.
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