On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Kevin Martin <kevintm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > Try connecting remotely: are you able to login cleanly? can you issue commands such as 'pf -ef' in the remote terminal? I had a similar problem a bit ago and it was related to a large number of ssh processes "hanging around". I kill them all and it was all fine. Check the logs, your problem could be due to several other reasons. As mentioned earlier: don't forget the simple stuff. Check that the /, /tmp or /var filesystems are ok and not full. Some systems slow down when they overheat: check the fans. If you don't have enough physical memory, make sure to have enough swap space. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
