Re: question

[Ryan Reddell]

Yes.... Just one suggestion...

CALL DELL!!


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>I just got my inspiron3200 back from repair (smoke came out of it 
during
>demonstration - Dell people put a new heat sink).
>While I was playing with it I started :
>$ yes > /dev/null &
>twenty times and let it run for about 30 minutes. My CPU indicator "hit 
the
>roof"
>later on I killed them all and "ps" or "jobs" indicated that all the 
twenty
>"yes" were dead. Now the Cpu indicator was showing 100% and everything 
was
>very slow (as though all the "yes" or at least one was still running). 
I
>logged in as root and that didn't help. 
>Why was CPU working like crazy since there was no indication of any 
running
>jobs?
>In order to post this message I had to reboot to windowz (where I live 
the
>only local ISP is AOL - which is not Linux friendly).
>When I halted the system it took Linux almost 5minutes to do it 
(usually it
>takes about 15 seconds). Obviously something interesting was going on 
but I
>have no idea what.
>Now after rebooting and checking everything is back to normal.
>Any suggestions?
>PS. Has anybody else had smoking adventure with inspiron3200?
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