Re: System slowed down- again!

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Sa, den 02.07.2005 schrieb Dotan Cohen um 16:02:

>  Thanks, Alex. I've since had to restart the machine twice. After
> the
>  first time I ran ps axuwwww | grep Z. At that time I had only one
>  zombie show up in top:
>  USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME 
COMMAND
>  root      3571  0.0  0.0      0     0 tty4     Z<   16:37   0:00
> [X] 
<defunct>
>  500       3802  0.0  0.0    364   108 tty6     R+   16:45   0:00 grep
Z

So X is dead - but on tty4?

>  As soon as the machine slows down again, I'll run top, and in
> the
>  event of zombies, I'll run ps.
>  
>  I don't think that the problem is anacron, as Andy suggested, as the
>  machine was up all night. I ussually don't turn the computer off at
>  night.
>  
>  Dotan Cohen 
Rereading your initial posting I suspect like Andy a hardware problem,
presumably with your harddrive. Run

smartctl -t long /dev/<your drive>

and when it finished inspect the results with

smartctl -a /dev/<your drive>

[ <your drive> seems to be hdb ]

I suggest you do this in runlevel 3 (so without X) and doing nothing
with the PC during the selftest time. Check too your cables. Often
enough a damaged cable or one with bad contact to the motherboard is
cause of trouble.

Alexander


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