On Wednesday 27 March 2002 11:21, Alan wrote: > Occasionally a process eats up everything in KDE. I have yet to find out > what because I cannot open a shell or do anything useful. If I try and log > out of KDE, it sometimes just dies. Trying to SSH to the machine just > hangs as well. (The daemon responds, but no shell appears.) It is not > consistant. I expect it is some sort of cron or at command that is being > run. Nothing is hitting the disk drive when this occurs. It is a P-III > 650 with 256 megs, so it is not too underpowered.
This is even nastier than that... I had top running in the background when this happened. The cpu was at 96+% idle. No additional shell could launch. No command could be run. Killing the X server went back to a login prompt instead of restarting xdm. Logging in would accept the user name and password and then hang. Rebooting hangs at "INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal." Has anyone else seen this? It only happens after the system has been left running for a day or so. There is nothing in /var/log/messages that indicate anything fatal going on. Any ideas?
