Re: bizzare 2.2.16 SCSI problems

From: Derek Martin (derek@cerberus.ne.mediaone.net)
Date: Wed Jul 12 2000 - 00:35:40 EST

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Yesterday, Derek Martin gleaned this insight:

> As a reminder, if I do, say:
>
> tar -xvf tarfile
>
> it will get part the way through, and then stop. Indefinitely. If I move
> the mouse, it continues. If the file is large enough, it stops again.
> IOW *ALL* disk activity stops. Moving the mouse continues. Rinse, repeat.
>
> Very, very bizarre.

Note: this only seems to happen if:

a) I'm su'd to root, and
b) I'm in X

This is XFree86 3.3.5 on RedHat 6.1 in case anyone cares...

Thanks again.

-- --------------------------------------------------------------- Derek D. Martin | Unix/Linux Geek ddm@MissionCriticalLinux.com | derek@cerberus.ne.mediaone.net ---------------------------------------------------------------

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