So I'm just sitting here writing in OOo on my Fedora 14 x86_64 laptop and suddenly everything is running really slow. I have a CPU monitor in my Gnome panel and it is jumping up to the max, but not permanently.
In the past I have had this happen sometimes when a Java something or another in Firefox would consume all CPU activity for a long time. Usually I just go into System Monitor, find the Java app, and kill it. But this time I couldn't even get System Monitor to open. And then I noticed the hard disk light was running solid. Something was doing a lot of writing to or reading from the disk, and it wasn't me. I managed to close all running applications, but the disk activity continued. I watched it nervously for about 20 minutes, and then finally it stopped and things returned to normal. Just as it stopped ABRT popped up a message that disappeared too fast to read in full, but it said something about the error file was too big. As it turns out by coincidence earlier today I had used Disk Usage Analyzer to see how much of my 320 GB hard disk was used up. I remember that it was 78%. After the frenetic disk activity I looked again, and now it is 81% used up. Something has written about 9 GB to my hard disk, probably some kind of error log. I'd like to know what it is, i.e., what crashed and why. I'd also like to delete it, since I doubt I need it. Of course, it might not be just one file. I used ls to locate the most recent files with -t, but it's not locating the file(s), nor is the -S parameter. I could use some suggestions for how to sleuth out what happened. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
