Re: Long uptime (~1 yr) => broken load averages (2.2.12)

From: Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Date: Mon Sep 04 2000 - 07:42:12 EST

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Neal H Walfield wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 10:34:39AM -0500, Jon.Clemons@marshallnet.com wrote:
> >
> >
> > Does a top show you any processes running heavy on the box????
> >
>
> No, it is 99% idle.

ps -auxww |grep D

will show you several (12) processes stuck in "D" state.

Which those are provides a hint as to what is wrong.

There may be something on your filesystem (or corrupted in memory)
that causes the dayly find to hang somewhere.

Roger.

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