On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 02:10, Tom Mitchell wrote: > Coredump... I thought you said that they were waiting on disk. > (could be dumping core, could be something else). The output of 'ps faxwl' shows "coredu" under the WCHAN column and "D" under the STATUS column. What does this actually mean? > What is happening with swap and other disk I/O generating > processes. Are any of your file systems 'non-local' automount, nfs, > samba, loop-back, CDROM.... Sure, and that's a good point. In the past (RH8 and 9), the slocate database updates would hang if one or more of the NFS clients were unavailable, despite the fact that the standard slocate configuration is supposed to ignore NFS mounts. But that doesn't seem to be what happened here. -- Stephen Walton <stephen.walton@xxxxxxxx> Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Northridge
