On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:09:22PM +0100, Benoît Dejean wrote: > > Le jeudi 28 février 2008 à 11:49 -0500, Justin Pryzby a écrit : > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:44:37PM +0100, Benoît Dejean wrote: > > > > > > Le mercredi 27 février 2008 à 15:08 -0500, Justin Pryzby a écrit : > > > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:35:23AM +0100, Benoît Dejean wrote: > > > > > > > > I've attached my sudoers file. No DNS names. > > > > > I can't think of any DNS issue that would lock all but root processes > > > > > for 5s. > > > > > > > > > > I've upgraded to 1.6.9p12-1 and can reproduce. Same kind of vmstat > > > > > output. > > > > Can you describe what you mean by "freeze"? Are you running in X11? > > > > Can you move the cursor/pointer at all? > > > > > > Not at all. As you can see in the vmstat output, suddenly and for 5s, > > > the waiting process queue grows to 20 processes ... everything but root > > > processes seems to be frozen. > > > Do you have the possibility to suspend the aptitude process, eg. with > > ^Z? > > no, everything is frozen. ^Z won't work until the system gets back to > normal. What about top output? Starting from top defaults (no .toprc), press:
P (sort by CPU usage) z (colorize) x (highlight column) b (reverse video highlight) S (cumulative CPU time) d.3 enter (delay 0.3 seconds) fy enter (enable wchan field) oYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY enter (put wchan near the first column, but not actually the first due to a top bug).
