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On Saturday 18 June 2005 10:58 pm, Grant Sewell wrote: > Just recently my main computer (Debian Sid) has been acting a little bit > strangely. About every 3rd day or so, at about 10:30pmish the harddrive > thrashes like you wouldn't believe Sounds like logrotate or another maintenance task. Inspect the crontab of the root user. # crontab -l > and bring the machine to an unusably > slow state for about 10-15 minutes, and then resumes business as normal, A second box would be the most useful thing. SSH into the main computer from the second box prior to the activation, then watch a 'top' report. > but for some reason KDE has lost it's ability to actually manage Windows or > virtual desktops, so I cannot actually do anything besides reset the X > session, which is not ideal. Probably not to be recommended, either. What you need is for this to happen at another time, rather than be interrupted. > Incidentally, and I have no idea whether this is related or not but... I > have noticed that I also seem to have an unusual process running: > /USR/SBIN/CRON. Now, I know cron is not unusual, but should it be in upper > case when shown with "ps auxwww"? Makes no odds. It's the task cron is running that matters. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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