Re: [expert] locked -- ps related stuff

2003-09-02 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 23:00, Jack Coates wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 15:53, David E. Fox wrote: > > What would cause the following - other than hardware issues - I've only > > seen this type of behavior a log time ago when I had intermittent power > > to my HD drives. > > > > And that was with

Re: [expert] locked -- ps related stuff

2003-09-02 Thread David E. Fox
> hardware -- overheating, low power, gremlins. Well, it was gremlins in the other system -- actually the power cable to the drives was a bit flaky, so anything that would access the drive (ex. df, ls, etc.) would hang, with a corresponding linear increase in the overall load average. This time,

Re: [expert] locked -- ps related stuff

2003-09-02 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 15:53, David E. Fox wrote: > What would cause the following - other than hardware issues - I've only > seen this type of behavior a log time ago when I had intermittent power > to my HD drives. > > And that was with an older system. hardware -- overheating, low power, gremli

[expert] locked -- ps related stuff

2003-09-01 Thread David E. Fox
What would cause the following - other than hardware issues - I've only seen this type of behavior a log time ago when I had intermittent power to my HD drives. And that was with an older system. Specifically, any number of ps/w/top or related commands are hanging the shell. urpmi.update -a also