I can try that, although it doesn't seem to hold true that 1) The load
average would reflect the sluggishness I'm seeing, and 2) w and ps and
that would hang but other programs would continue to run fine. I'll try
to get some strace output in a w or something next time it happens.
Jason
--- Jason Slagle - CCNA - CCDA Network Administrator - Toledo Internet Access - Toledo Ohio - raistlin@tacorp.net - jslagle@toledolink.com - WHOIS JS10172 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GE d-- s:+ a-- C++ UL+++ P--- L+++ E- W- N+ o-- K- w--- O M- V PS+ PE+++ Y+ PGP t+ 5 X+ R tv+ b+ DI+ D G e+ h! r++ y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Mitchell Blank Jr wrote:
> It's because we've seen it a hundred zillion times before... weird problems > with overclocked systems that the owners claim "work fine under any other > version, so it must be a kernel bug". > > You could well be on the edge of where overclocking breaks down. There's > some sequence of instructions and/or memory access in the kernel that is > causing your particular CPU to croak every billionth time through. Maybe > previous kernel compiles didn't emit those exact instructions and you > lucked out.
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