On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Myreen Johan wrote:
> >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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