check /var/log/messages for any clue- especially the log entries around
the time it "sleeps"
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Sandeep Singh Cheema
ACT-PSO
HCL Infosystems
3rd Floor Subharam Complex
144 MG Road Bangalore- 560001
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When you overesteem great hackers,
more users become cretins.
When you develop encryption,
more users become crackers.
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Nagarjuna G. wrote:
>
> Dear linuxers,
>
> I have a running linux server on P-III dual (445Mhz), version SuSE 6.2,
> kernel 2.2.10 on a Intel 440GX motherboard. The performance is very good.
> However I have discovered a strange problem yesterday. At some point it
> `hangs' for few minutes. During this time nothing happens, though network
> is up, as pinging from other machines indicates. No logins are possible
> from the network as well as from the console, even a simple command like `ls
> -l' takes minutes to respond. When it responds it just rocks, and when this
> sleaps it is as good as dead. This has happened thrice yesterday for about
> 3/4 minutes. I know that this is not real hanging, because it manages to
> come out of this inactivity on its own after some time.
>
> Now my problem is how to diagnose where the problem lies. Any clues?
>
> Nagarjuna
>
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> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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