On August 20, 2001 12:54 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 09:00:53PM -0700, Kamil Kisiel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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. ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; charset="us-ascii"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- Kamil Kisiel www.speechlessarts.com
