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Re: Strange system lockups.



on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 05:07:33PM -0700, Kamil Kisiel (KamilKisiel@speechlessarts.com) wrote:
> On August 20, 2001 12:54 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 09:00:53PM -0700, Kamil Kisiel 
> (KamilKisiel@speechlessarts.com) wrote:

> > Note that caching and high disk use are two separate things.  Are you
> > certain that the issue is caching?
> 
> Well, I am not certain it's a disk caching problem, but I can't fathom
> what else could possibly be using my HD for well over an hour. 

slocate can run for a while, though an hour is excessive in my
experience.



> > You also don't specify your memory and swap configuration.  They might
> > be...?
> 
> I have 128MB of RAM and 400MB of swap space, I don't think I am short on 
> either.

You may want to set some logging to note when your system swap
utilization starts climbing, and add to this ps output sorted by memory
utilization.

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