Re: VERY Strange Problem since last update
Hm. that's interesting, i thought it was only me! =)
I've been running a updated potato for a good while now, but last night
when the update and then upgrade (apt-get upgrade) i did was done, it
would start running some of the same programs you have. It would fun up
afterstep and thrash and eat resources. then gnome-panel would eat for a
while and then it stopped doing it.
i thought it might have to do with the update in man-db, but i guess it
isn't a very recent thing. sorry i can't be anymore helpful, i'm a victim
too! =)
Herbert Ho
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Todd Suess wrote:
> Ok, this is a good one.
>
> I ran a recent apt-get dist-upgrade to complete the upgrade needed
> to fully bring my slink system up to potato. Since then, I have noticed
> some very strange activity on my system. Every time I run an apt-get
> anything (update, upgrade, etc), the following happens:
>
> 1. Apt-get action completes.
>
> 2. pdmenu fires up and proceeds to thrash the hard drive for about
> 30 minutes, slowly chewing up all available system resources
> (RAM and SWAP), until SWAP is down to 0k available.
>
> 3. pdmenu then stops, and all memory returns to normal.
>
> 4. afterstep fires up and proceeds to thrash the hard drive for about
> 30 minutes, slowly chewing up all available system resources
> (RAM and SWAP), until SWAP is down to 0k available.
>
> 5. afterstep then stops, and all memory returns to normal.
>
> **NOTE I am NOT running xwindows at this point, all I have open
> is 2 VC's, one which I was running the apt-get on, and another
> running top to monitor what is going on.
>
> This sequence continues with the running (at least in top) of all
> my installed xwindows managers (fvm, olvm, etc), and when the
> last one is done thrashing the hard drive (this has now taken about
> 4 hours of time) , memory returns to normal, and the system
> seems to be completely normal until I run another update, etc.
>
> This is very perplexing, I cannot imagine a reason why any of
> my xwindow managers would load without xwindows even being
> open (or even configured at this point). If anyone can suggest
> ANY reason why this might be happening, I am very open to
> suggestions.
>
> Regards,
>
> Todd
>
>
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