Re: Hung system?

[Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost>]

On Sat 23 Oct 2010 at 16:32:24 +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> Anyone seen something like this?
> 
> *** (in a shell):
> Krille:/etc# w
> load: 16.82  cmd: tcsh 26889 [vm_map] 3.99u 3.24s 0% 1440k
> load: 17.00  cmd: tcsh 26889 [vm_map] 13.42u 45.65s 0% 1440k
> load: 17.00  cmd: tcsh 26889 [vm_map] 13.43u 45.85s 0% 1440k

I have on occasion seen big load average peaks (at least 20 or even
higher) combined with unresponsiveness for maybe a minute, but it was on
my amd64 server, and might have been related to USB and/or X. That
wouldn't be the cause on a VAX, typically. So maybe it is something
different; ^T didn't even work in that situation (but I had only xterms
available).

>       Johnny
-Olaf.
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