4 times now, since mid December last year, with 3 different kernels,
my system has hung while updating the slocate database. The hang has
been at pretty much the same time (within seconds) each time.
The system is ping-able, caps lock works on the console keyboard but
the screen will not un-blank. That's the only life I can detect. There
is nothing in /var/log/messages or in the process accounting (lastcomm)
out of the ordinary.
Below is a top output I had running at the time. The system is a quad
processor Dell 6650 with 4 Gig of memory.
This top was from a kernel-smp-2.4.22-1.2140.nptl.
04:09:01 up 1 day, 18:38, 26 users, load average: 1.14, 0.64, 0.30
263 processes: 262 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 1.6% 1.6% 12.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 783.2%
cpu00 0.0% 0.1% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 99.0%
cpu01 0.3% 0.3% 2.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 96.6%
cpu02 0.0% 0.0% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 99.2%
cpu03 0.5% 0.5% 2.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 96.4%
cpu04 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 99.6%
cpu05 0.0% 0.1% 1.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 97.8%
cpu06 0.3% 0.0% 2.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 97.2%
cpu07 0.1% 0.3% 1.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 98.0%
Mem: 3878532k av, 2046568k used, 1831964k free, 0k shrd, 182600k buff
818644k active, 852048k inactive
Swap: 33559768k av, 301608k used, 33258160k free 1319920k cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
2762 root 34 19 696 696 464 D N 6.7 0.0 0:05 0 updatedb
22530 norm 16 0 1348 1316 816 R 1.1 0.0 4:39 1 top
19 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.7 0.0 15:42 4 kswapd
1964 user1 15 0 88720 48M 44312 S 0.5 1.2 21:01 7 netscape-bin
17050 user2 25 10 10336 7232 6016 S N 0.5 0.1 3:21 1 rhn-applet-gui
270 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.1 0.0 0:10 5 kjournald
274 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.1 0.0 1:03 2 kjournald
881 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.1 0.0 0:22 6 nfsd
928 root 15 0 1640 1472 1348 S 0.1 0.0 7:04 7 amd
1073 root 16 0 5588 3264 3228 S 0.1 0.0 0:42 2 httpd
9832 user2 16 0 2096 1596 1544 S 0.1 0.0 0:50 1 fam
17051 root 16 0 524 500 456 S 0.1 0.0 0:08 1 pam_timestamp_c
1 root 16 0 504 476 452 S 0.0 0.0 0:17 2 init
2 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 swapper
3 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 1 swapper
4 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 2 swapper
5 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 3 swapper
6 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 4 swapper
7 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 5 swapper
8 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 6 swapper
9 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 7 swapper
10 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:07 3 keventd
11 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:10 0 ksoftirqd/0
12 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 1 ksoftirqd/1
13 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 2 ksoftirqd/2
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Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator
School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science
University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia
norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412
http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312
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