Re: [SLUG] What is a race condition?

Ben Donohue wrote: Hi Slugs, I have a RH box that once a week the hard disk goes into accessing continually and won't stop till I literally "pull the plug". Is this a race condition? No, that's another problem. Your problem is "unfairness" -- a process is hammering the drive and your other process

Re: [SLUG] What is a race condition?

Ben Donohue wrote: Hi Slugs, I have a RH box that once a week the hard disk goes into accessing continually and won't stop till I literally "pull the plug". What was running at the time? Logs? Inital thoughts sounds like a possible locatedb update. HW specs (Hd size, %full, ram, swaP). -- Terr

[SLUG] What is a race condition?

Hi Slugs, I have a RH box that once a week the hard disk goes into accessing continually and won't stop till I literally "pull the plug". Is this a race condition? If so then how do I track it down as to why it does it? It runs RH and dial up and Guarddog firewall. Prior to this I had a different