I had thought that I had pinpointed the process that was causing my
disk occasionally to lock on solid (to the point where I can do nothing
except power down my machine) but it seems, after more than a week
without problem, that I was mistaken.
I am running LM 7.2 without modification on a stock 700MHz Athlon. (LM
7.2 was pre-installed.)
At 09:48 this morning, something happened to lock the disk activity
light on solid. When I detected the problem fifty minutes later, I
could do absolutely nothing to investigate the state of the machine. I
know that the time at which the failure occurred is 09:48 because the
clock on my KDE desktop stuck at that time.
After a reboot, I looked in the syslog file, and the only thing at that
time is the following:
Jul 16 09:48:26 localhost kernel: VM: killing process multiload_apple
whatever that means.
There are a few subsequent entries before I came into the room and
noticed the failure about 50 minutes later. There are several CROND
entries that say things like:
CROND[11016]: (root) CMD ( /sbin/rmmod -as)
and another couple of instances of VM killing processes.
Does anyone have any suggestions how to figure out:
1. what's going on
2. what's causing it
Doc Evans
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