John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Fri, 06 Aug 2004 13:39:52 +0800: > Some years ago I used to boot off a Quantum LPS 170. It had some more > stuff on it, probably /tmp. > > It died and managed to hang a couple of process. > > I manged to reconfigure the system without taking it down, and the hung > processes contributed to a higher-than-normail loadaverage for weeks. > Probably until the next power failure.
I had my web stuff on a friend's computer for a while. They noticed a high load after a few weeks, and eventually worked out that updatedb was getting stuck on the same directory every night. It had been like that for weeks unnoticed (given that it was merely a headless box in the corner), and was now sitting at a load of 60 or so (mostly updatedb processes, but a few `ls` in the directory of question). They sent a notice to everyone that the "computer was experiencing a bit of trouble, don't do the following:", and then left it until they could get a new drive :) -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ Brown's Theorem (Physics III student, Usyd): "The only thing that behaves like a billiard ball, is a billiard ball" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
