Package: laptop-mode-tools Version: 1.36-1 Severity: normal If I unplug the AC power (the laptop is a Thinkpad T60) while the /etc/cron.daily/locate script is running, the system slows to a crawl. It's happened twice with this pattern so far, so I think its reproducible.
The cause seems to a 'mount' process consuming almost 100% of the CPU time, or maybe 100% of one of the core's CPU time (while the 'find' gets most of the other core's CPU). The 'mount' eventually finished, about 20 minutes later. I don't know if taking a long time to remount is expected while another disk-intensive process is running? Here is a 'df': $ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 74587868 19977684 50821256 29% / tmpfs 773556 0 773556 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10240 108 10132 2% /dev tmpfs 773556 0 773556 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 280003 44602 220945 17% /boot /dev/sda3 76992740 17741292 55340424 25% /home Here is the 'ps l' for the 'mount' process and fo rits ancestors: $ ps lww24788 F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND 4 0 24788 24787 20 0 2052 692 - R ? 4:33 mount /dev/sda2 -t ext3 / -o remount,rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=600 $ ps lww24787 F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND 1 0 24787 24765 20 0 3180 868 - S ? 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/sbin/laptop_mode auto $ ps lww24765 F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND 1 0 24765 24731 20 0 3180 1052 - S ? 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/sbin/laptop_mode auto $ ps lww24731 F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND 0 0 24731 24730 20 0 3180 1704 - S ? 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/sbin/laptop_mode auto $ ps lww24730 F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND 0 0 24730 3618 20 0 2776 1196 - S ? 0:00 /bin/bash /etc/acpi/actions/lm_ac_adapter.sh $ ps lww3618 F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND 1 0 3618 1 20 0 3208 2172 - Ss ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/acpid -c /etc/acpi/events -s /var/run/acpid.socket -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages laptop-mode-tools depends on: ii lsb-base 3.2-4 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii util-linux 2.13.1-2 Miscellaneous system utilities Versions of packages laptop-mode-tools recommends: ii acpid 1.0.6-5.1 Utilities for using ACPI power man ii hdparm 8.3-1 tune hard disk parameters for high ii sdparm 1.02-1 Output and modify SCSI device para -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
