Re: unresponsive system
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:01:31 -0500
Brian McKee <map@map-heb.com> wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> A little while back I was trying to fix a system that was producing
> a continuous tone after being unused for a while, then logging in.
> Now it's running a wee mite slow....
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> > time top -n 1 > output.txt
> > real 67m42.116s
> > user 0m0.008s
> > sys 0m0.000s
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> Yep - it took it over an hour to run top once and put the output in a
> file. Then it started beeping again.
> I had to hard reboot it (the noise was driving me batty) and guess
> what - output.txt is nowhere to be found!
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> I did see the file before I rebooted - cpu was 0%us 0%ni 89%id,
> swap was 0k used and the first process listed was using less than 2%
> cpu.
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> After the reboot it seems to run fine - the software RAID rebuilds
> etc etc.
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> I can't seem to nail down what makes it start - I'm not actually
> using the system at present.
> I just set it up to do some testing and it's just sitting there idle.
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> Any suggestions what's going on here or how to troubleshoot further?
>
> Brian
What kind of noise is it?
Coming from the hard drive?
Based on the above...if it takes forever to write to output.txt, it looks like hard drive is messed up.
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