Re: lock-up with thrashing

2000-07-24 Thread Michael Soulier
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: > It wasn't perhaps a cron job running 'find ...' to update the database > for the locate command? That tends to bring most activity to a near > halt until it finishes. You can correlate the scheduled time of the > cron job with the time this was going

Re: lock-up with thrashing

2000-07-22 Thread kmself
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 01:37:12AM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote: > > So, I get home from finally seeing the X-Men movie (I truly > expected them to hack it up horribly, but I was impressed...) to find my > Debian box thrashing away like crazy. The mouse would barely respond, and > a ctrl-alt

Re: lock-up with thrashing

2000-07-21 Thread Manoj Victor Mathew
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 11:29:34PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > > Debian box thrashing away like crazy. The mouse would barely > > respond, and a ctrl-alt-backspace only partially shut down X. > > It just sort of hung while the system went nuts, the > > harddrive sounding like it was about to bl

Re: lock-up with thrashing

2000-07-21 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 01:37:12AM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote: > > So, I get home from finally seeing the X-Men movie (I truly > expected them to hack it up horribly, but I was impressed...) to > find my Debian box thrashing away like crazy. The mouse would > barely respo

lock-up with thrashing

2000-07-21 Thread Michael Soulier
So, I get home from finally seeing the X-Men movie (I truly expected them to hack it up horribly, but I was impressed...) to find my Debian box thrashing away like crazy. The mouse would barely respond, and a ctrl-alt-backspace only partially shut down X. It just sort of hung while the sys