Re: Mysterious hangs since upgrading to Wheezy

2013-08-04 Thread David Guntner
Klaus grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On 04/08/13 18:19, David Guntner wrote: >> I'm not typically awake at the time that cron >> runs all those things, so it will be hard to tell if future run-daily >> jobs will have as strong of an impact as it might have today. > > Another opportunity for a lit

Re: Mysterious hangs since upgrading to Wheezy

2013-08-04 Thread David Guntner
Martin Steigerwald grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Hi David! > > Am Sonntag, 4. August 2013, 08:31:21 schrieb David Guntner: > […] >> Since I upgraded from Squeeze to Wheezy yesterday, I've noticed periodic >> hangs, where the system seems to just be *seriously* loaded down. It >> happened again

Re: Mysterious hangs since upgrading to Wheezy

2013-08-04 Thread Klaus
On 04/08/13 18:19, David Guntner wrote: I'm not typically awake at the time that cron runs all those things, so it will be hard to tell if future run-daily jobs will have as strong of an impact as it might have today. Another opportunity for a little plug for munin:

Re: Mysterious hangs since upgrading to Wheezy

2013-08-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi David! Am Sonntag, 4. August 2013, 08:31:21 schrieb David Guntner: […] > Since I upgraded from Squeeze to Wheezy yesterday, I've noticed periodic > hangs, where the system seems to just be *seriously* loaded down. It > happened again this morning - it was so bad I was just about to press > the

Re: Mysterious hangs since upgrading to Wheezy

2013-08-04 Thread David Guntner
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Sun 04 Aug 2013 at 08:45:19 -0700, David Guntner wrote: > >> I just discovered that the upgrade "thoughtfully" added anacron back to >> my system (I removed it from squeeze because my system is used as a >> server, thus is up 24/7, thus doesn't need anacron

Re: Mysterious hangs since upgrading to Wheezy

2013-08-04 Thread Brian
On Sun 04 Aug 2013 at 08:45:19 -0700, David Guntner wrote: > I just discovered that the upgrade "thoughtfully" added anacron back to > my system (I removed it from squeeze because my system is used as a > server, thus is up 24/7, thus doesn't need anacron). I note that > anacron is a "suggests" i

Re: Mysterious hangs since upgrading to Wheezy

2013-08-04 Thread David Guntner
Following up with an addendum: David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Now, on my main desktop, I keep two windows always open, one running top > and the other tailing the syslog. Top was showing a load in excess of > 5.00 (which I think is a bit excessive...) and was gradually going dow

Mysterious hangs since upgrading to Wheezy

2013-08-04 Thread David Guntner
I don't know if anyone has experienced this, and I freely admit that I don't have a lot of information to go on, so I'm not going to be *too* surprised if nobody has any ideas. :-) However, I'm going to give it a shot; who knows, I might get lucky. Since I upgraded from Squeeze to Wheezy yesterd