On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 15:53, David E. Fox wrote: > What would cause the following - other than hardware issues - I've only > seen this type of behavior a log time ago when I had intermittent power > to my HD drives. > > And that was with an older system.
hardware -- overheating, low power, gremlins. > > Specifically, any number of ps/w/top or related commands are hanging the > shell. urpmi.update -a also hangs the shell. I am in the middle of a backup > and so far have had to abort it twice and restart because of this. These > processes are blocking so that I end up with a very high load average -- at > present it is over 20. > lacking access to /proc would do that -- any difference if root? msec up at 4 or 5? > Surprisingly, system response is speedy - it's just that the system thinks > each of these processes is one that's waiting in the run queue, which of > course, they are. > > Oh well, reboot time again. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > David E. Fox Thanks for letting me > [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns > [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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