On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:34:36PM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote:
> Jul 16 09:31:10 localhost kernel: cdrom: open failed.
> Jul 16 09:31:10 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00
> (floppy), sector 0
> I don't know what those messages around 09:31 mean, but they seem to
> appear sporadically throughout the "messages" file, usually a few times
> per day.
just tried to access the floppy with no floppy in the drive. It happens
quite frequently also when you do things like df or browse the /mnt/
directory, so the automounter tries to check if there's a disk.
> If only I could figure out which process was causing the
> aberrant behaviour, I could start to do something about it.
i've some idea. maybe wrong, but could be an hint.
from my experience, in some cases, konqueror from kde2 starts sucking
up ram. The disk activity you hear is just swapping activity. Since
you are not ulimited, konqueror have the permission to eat up all cpu
and ram, and when all virtual memory (physical and swap) is exausted,
your machine is locked.
if your machine is a critical routing machine, i suggest you not to hog
it with this kind of processes (maybe i'm wrong, but the kde shipped
with mandrake 7.2 was a pre-release, and so very buggy), and if you
really need to use them, place some care in /etc/security/limits.conf.
If you set correct limit parameters and an application starts to hog
your machine, the kernel kills the application before it's too late.
Another good solution is trying to upgrade kde :)
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