remember something like that happening to me on 7.x.... what it was, was
some process compressing /var/mail and /var/news ... after a long time
running it would just take longer and longer... I'd just delete anything
in /var/mail and /var/new (***IF YOUR NOT USING THAT AS A MAIL SERVER***)
and it may solve your probablem... see if you don't have just an
exorbement amount of files in those directories....
BTW- if "rm *" says "too many arguments" do a :
ls /var/mail | while read a
do
rm -f $a
done
or something... just be careful not to delete anything too important...
--Davy
"D. R. Evans" wrote:
> 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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