Running LM 7.2 on a stock 700 MHz Athlon.
Everything was working fine until sometime in the past day or two
something got changed such that I now see the following behaviour:
Sometimes when the clock ticks across an hour boundary, the disk light
comes on and stays on. The machine is so busy that the only thing I can
do is to power it down.
This happened yesterday at 2300Z and today at 2400Z.
Is there anything I can do that will let me log what process might be
causing this, so that after the enforced manual reboot I can figure out
which process is the culprit?
I have made a lot of changes to user programs in the past day or so,
although I would like to think that Linux would ensure that if the
problem was a regular user program, I would still be able to get enough
time to log in and run a ps to look to see what's happening.
I also added ntpd (the 4.0 latest release from ntp.org), which seems
very suspicious to me -- but it's pretty hard to believe that anything
problem this major could be lurking in such well-tested code;
especially since I'm not doing anything fancy in the config file.
Doc Evans
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