Re: Strange system lockups.

2001-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 05:07:33PM -0700, Kamil Kisiel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On August 20, 2001 12:54 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 09:00:53PM -0700, Kamil Kisiel > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Note that caching and high disk use are two separate things. Are yo

Re: Strange system lockups.

2001-08-20 Thread Jeremy
Unfortunately I don't have anything to add as a suggestion, but I just wanted to say that I've had this same problem. For me, I don't have a remote way into my box, so I have no way of killing whatever process may be doing this, but just recently I had this happen upon opening my email and it corr

Re: Strange system lockups.

2001-08-20 Thread Kamil Kisiel
Ok, this acct program is not going to do it. According to it's man pages, the kernel only logs to acct after a process has terminated. Since whatever is locking up my system obviously doesn't terminate (otherwise my system would not be locked up from processor/HD use), this doesn't do me a whole

Re: Strange system lockups.

2001-08-20 Thread Kamil Kisiel
On August 20, 2001 12:54 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 09:00:53PM -0700, Kamil Kisiel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I am having some weird system lockup problems. My computer goes in to > > heavy HD caching every Sunday evening or Monday morning and locks up, > > I cannot m

Re: Strange system lockups.

2001-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 09:00:53PM -0700, Kamil Kisiel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am having some weird system lockup problems. My computer goes in to > heavy HD caching every Sunday evening or Monday morning and locks up, > I cannot move the mouse in X nor can I switch to any other virtual > t

Strange system lockups.

2001-08-19 Thread Kamil Kisiel
I am having some weird system lockup problems. My computer goes in to heavy HD caching every Sunday evening or Monday morning and locks up, I cannot move the mouse in X nor can I switch to any other virtual terminals. I checked all the cron jobs in cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly and n