Hi Listies, I'm having a somewhat repeatable lock-up condition happen with my RH9 installation.
If I have Phoenix/Firebird running and somewhat forgotten, and I switch back to it, disk activity goes through the roof (desperation swap?), and the system slows to a crawl so that it barely responds to user input. I can Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log in as root (though getting to a bash prompt never happens), or I can start shutting down with Ctrl-Alt-Del, but the system never gets past "Sending KILL to all processes". This is with RH9 running KDE and the latest stable Firebird. I'm using a custom-compiled kernel, but I think it happened with stock too. It usually happens after Firebird is likely to have gotten swapped out. This system was rock-solid under RH7.1. I have plenty of disk space, plenty of swap space, and its otherwise stable (ie. other apps). My questions: 1) Has anyone else seen this type of slow-down/lock-up? 2) How do I debug it (no interesting log messages)? I'd like to know which piece to blame so I know what to try upgrading. I have no idea whether an application should be able to do this to the system, or if its the kernel's fault for letting it happen. I can't get to top, and I can't kill processes. Ideas? Thanks, ~gb -- Greg Bell -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
