https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757560 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757560#c1 Jeff Mahoney changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |charles@mcevoy.com --- Comment #1 from Jeff Mahoney 2012-04-17 15:21:02 EDT --- There are 4 CPUs in your system. Pegging kswapd0 shouldn't hang your system. It maybe hanging X, though. Do you have another system you can use to log into this one remotely? If so, please do 'echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger' as root and attach your /var/log/messages. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757560 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757560#c3 --- Comment #3 from Charles McEvoy 2012-04-19 23:56:13 UTC --- Thanks. You are right - loose use of language. It doesn't hang completely, but becomes completely unusable - even lokking in via ssh takes an age. Maybe this is due to disc thrashing rather than CPU load? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757560 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757560#c5 Charles McEvoy changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|charles@mcevoy.com | --- Comment #5 from Charles McEvoy 2012-04-22 11:51:36 UTC --- (In reply to comment #4)

Wow. There are a *lot* of xmodmap processes running, each appearing to be a child of the previous. This looks kind of like a fork bomb.

xmodmap doesn't fork itself, though. Can you, as the user usually performing the xmodmap provide the output of 'type xmodmap' ?

Ah. My apologies - I have been wasting your time. There was indeed a loop in the script that called xmodmap that was spawning like a salmon. So sorry, I was misled by top and the reports of similar problems with this process running away on SandyBridge processors. Thanks for your help. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.