On Sun, 2018-02-04 at 20:45 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 04 February 2018 15:49:36 Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > I am running Debian Stretch on am eight thread AMD GPU platform. > > Lately, it seems if I have been plagued by surfeit of orphaned > nodes. > > > > I have goggled the causes. cures and prevention, but have gotten no > > results that make any sense to me. I've been using computer since > the > > early 1960's but am an organic chemist by training and experience, > not > > a hardware expert. > > > > At first I though it might be impending hard drive failure as I > > started receiving warning messages from the OS, but installing a > brand > > new drive has not solved the problem, They seem to happen when I > am > > running four or more apps at the same time. I have 8GB of RAM in > the > > system. > > > > I've installed several tools, lscup and lsh, but in all candor I > don't > > have the faintest idea what to make of the results. I'm not even > sure > > if the results have any application to solutions for the problem. > > > > Can anyone give me some guidance in what I should be looking > for? It > > would be much appreciated. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > Are you perchance running clamav? version 99.3's first release about > 2 > weeks back used up the available unix sockets, bricking the machine > till > a reboot, wash, rinse, repeat. A new 99.3 has fixed that, but until > that > filters thru the distro channels, you should shut clamav down. So I > have, and have commented out, the calls to inspect incoming emails > out > of my .procmailrc. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> >
Thanks for the suggestion. No. I'm not using clamav. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Consultant www.molecular-modeling.net (614)312-7528 (c) Skype: smolnar1
