>
> Hi. Just had a strange thing happen to my main machine today.
> It had been happily running 2.2.0-pre9, and then for some unknown
> reason I noticed that the load was climbing into the sky...
>
> Lots and lots of things were getting into " D " (disk wait) state, and
> not coming back. It looked like anything that tried to exit, was just
> not doing so. I quit my netscape and it just sat there in "D" and
> wouldn't free up it's memory.
>
i had this happen too with pre9. I was grep'ing (more file | grep string)
a 200 meg file on the console, then my tech started reading the same file
over nfs and all the mores and greps froze 'D'. I too was forced to
alt-sysrq-b. Can anyone tell me why I saw like 6 mores and greps (apiece)
in the 'ps' listing? when i only ran the command once
-Tony
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Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer
admin@intergrafix.net Intergrafix Internet Services
"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today"
http://cygnus.ncohafmuta.com http://www.intergrafix.net
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