On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Christopher Chan <christopher.chan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I agree here. I do remember not being able to log in when i/o is completely > swamped though. Maybe the problem is not so much 100% cpu usage but disk > i/o. The box might be thrashing swap. Oh, I missed that, we do use NFS badly(nfs mount home directory) in that box, the system became hard to login when lots of people works. PS: I think, you know, root should be loginable in any condition unless the system is down. Shouldn't it? Thanks, nate and Christopher -- FIXME if it is wrong. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos