on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 09:00:53PM -0700, Kamil Kisiel (KamilKisiel@speechlessarts.com) wrote: > I am having some weird system lockup problems. My computer goes in to > heavy HD caching every Sunday evening or Monday morning and locks up, > I cannot move the mouse in X nor can I switch to any other virtual > terminals. Note that caching and high disk use are two separate things. Are you certain that the issue is caching? It might help to run a top session in batch mode, with logged output, to watch top processes and system resource utilization, to watch trends. > I checked all the cron jobs in cron.daily, cron.weekly and > cron.monthly and none of them take more than 3 seconds to run. My > /etc/crontab only has anacron running. I checked my syslog, it doesn't > report anything happening at this time. I am the only user on my > system. There's a process accounting utility (I'm trying to find it, think it's the 'acct' package) which logs the start of every command executed on the system. I've found this more useful as a debug tool than for accounting per se. You also don't specify your memory and swap configuration. They might be...? -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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