Konstantin Svist wrote: > 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) > > > Looks like I misread - now I see that you wrote that idle is 90+... REISUB still applies though - http://fosswire.com/2007/09/08/fix-a-frozen-system-with-the-magic-sysrq-keys/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
