Hello all,
I have a problem that I haven't seen mentioned here on linux-newbie or
on any of the other lists so I am at a loss as to where to start to
try and solve it. OK to the point.
On any one day at any one time my system will go off on a disk
access frenzy. It consumes all the CPU time and everything just
comes to a stand still. I once sat around for an hour and thirty
minutes and monitored this occurrence. At about every 6 minutes
the drive accesses would lighten up enough that the clock display would
update, the pointer would move (if the mouse had been moved),
and maybe a screen would partially refresh but then the access frenzy
would increase and everything else would go into a coma until the next
6 or so minute interval (the intervals are not always at 6 minutes.
this morning they were around 4 minutes.) I have gone away for hours
with this happening and come back to it still going.
One thing that seems to be common to this is that I have left Netscape
running for a long period of time without a modem connection
established to my ISP (i.e. overnight or during the day.) I can not
remember a time when Netscape was not left running and this problem
occurred.
I am running with: Debian 2.1 kernel 2.0.36
Netscape Communicator version 4.7
AfterStep1.7.142 patch level 17 window manager
XFree86 3.3.2.3a-11
So, if anyone has any idea or thoughts on this I would certainly
appreciate you sharing them with me.
Thanks,
Tracy Tilton
