Re: Strange system lockups.
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:
> > 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?
>
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.
> 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.
I will download this package and run it to see if I can catch this problem...
thanks for the hint.
>
> 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.
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