Kevin Martin wrote: > I'm getting some strange things happening on F10 lately. In a terminal > session if I "ps -ef" or "w" or "ls" or anything of that nature the > command runs (sometimes) but never returns the prompt. Also, my loadavg > seems to go sky high but "top" doesn't necessarily show anything using > much CPU (actually, top will often show that my cpu utilization is 90+% > idle while my loadavg is upwards of 10). I can usually shutdown my > "gui"fied apps (like Thunderbird, Firefox, VirtualBox) but if I try and > reboot the reboot hangs while trying to shutdown "automount" and I have > to cycle the power on the box. I'm running the latest updates including > kernel 2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.i686. Any thoughts or suggestions are > appreciated. > > Thanks. > > Kevin > Check the %wa field in top - most likely the CPU is busy with some I/O accesses (probably the HD). I always look at the %id to get the % CPU amount actually used because %wa is not added to %system or %user Instead of power cycling, use REISUB - it should be easier on your file system (need to enable it with "kernel.sysrq = 1" in /etc/sysctl.conf) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
