Cameron Simpson writes: > On 23:25 31 Dec 2003, Robert Brown <eli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > | I figgured out what the problem was, --this time--, but it would still > | be nice to better understand the general case. This time, it was gpm > | was hung up in the middle of reading the mouse when the > | keyboard-mouse-display switch was flipped to another machine, so the > | mouse got pulled at an inoportune moment. Very interesting! > > Care to describe how you determined this? I took a closer look at either a "top" or "ps awfxu", display being logged in via ssh, and saw that "gpm" was flagged with an "R" a ways down in the list. I then switched the keyboard-mouse-monitor switch back to the machine in question and instantly saw the load start to decline. -- -------- "And there came a writing to him from Elijah" [2Ch 21:12] -------- R. J. Brown III rj@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.elilabs.com/~rj voice 859 567-7311 Elijah Laboratories Inc. P. O. Box 166, Warsaw KY 41095 fax 859 567-7311 ----- M o d e l i n g t h e M e t h o d s o f t h e M i n d ------ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
