Messages in this thread | | | From | Myreen Johan <> | Subject | RE: Hang of sorts on 2.1.127 | Date | Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:00:20 +0200 |
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>This only happened once - so far - but I thought I would mention it >anyway. My system seemed to hang today.
>It acted almost like disk I/O was hanging. However, I would not have >expected the login attempt to get as far as it did. Also, syslogd was >able to write log message during the "hang". syslogd also recieved >and logged entries from another system during this time. Could it >have been FS specific?
I have seen this too, and it is repeatable. A slowdown like this happens when I try to compile glibc 2.0.100 on my 120 MHz AMD 486 machine. When I type make, it starts building the library at the speed you would expect from a 120 MHz 486, but eight hours later (when I wake up) the machine has slowed down to a crawl, and the library build process still hasn't finished. The disk LED blinks only occasionally, if at all.
I was also able to switch consoles and log in from another console with no problems, but a simple 'ls' seemed to take forever, as did a ps command.
Killing the make process seemed to restore everything normal again.
This machine has an IDE disk with ext2 file systems, no network, kernel 2.1.127 (non-SMP), X11 was not running.
Johan Myreen jem@iki.fi
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