St?phane Teletch?a wrote on Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 09:29:26AM +0200 : > Le Mardi 17 Septembre 2002 06:50, Bob Walker a ?crit : > > I'm encountering CPU runaway - some process is hogging all the CPU time. > > All other processes are frozen...After waiting some time, I was able to > > notice that 'mrecoveryd' was NICE'd at -20, and X was NICE'd at -10. > > I reset them to 0. The problem persisted. I CTRL+ALT+F1 out, shutdown X, > > then restarted it. All was fine again. I wonder if this is an issue with > > the NVIDIA driver (1.0-3123)...The same thing happened yesterday morning. > > > > Bob > > I'm encountering troubles with this drivers too, when i log off, i cannot see > the login screen, and have to manually power off the computer. Thanks of for > journalised filesystem !
If you press Alt-SysReq-S, then Alt-SysReq-U, then Alt-SysReq-B, does it
(in order) sync, then unmount, then reboot the machine?
That will stress the journal a litle less :). If the kernel is halted
though, then it will not work.
Blue skies... Todd
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