>It acted almost like disk I/O was hanging. However, I would not have
>expected the login attempt to get as far as it did. Also, syslogd was
>able to write log message during the "hang". syslogd also recieved
>and logged entries from another system during this time. Could it
>have been FS specific?
I have seen this too, and it is repeatable. A slowdown
like this happens when I try to compile glibc 2.0.100
on my 120 MHz AMD 486 machine. When I type make, it starts
building the library at the speed you would expect
from a 120 MHz 486, but eight hours later (when I
wake up) the machine has slowed down to a crawl, and
the library build process still hasn't finished. The
disk LED blinks only occasionally, if at all.
I was also able to switch consoles and log in from
another console with no problems, but a simple 'ls'
seemed to take forever, as did a ps command.
Killing the make process seemed to restore everything
normal again.
This machine has an IDE disk with ext2 file systems,
no network, kernel 2.1.127 (non-SMP), X11 was not running.
Johan Myreen
jem@iki.fi
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