-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-04-17 at 11:15 +0200, Clayton wrote:
I traced the problem.... a failing IDE hard drive. Here's a little info to close off this thread.
From the look of it, it was coincidental that Ruby was involved. Ruby seemed to be involved because whatever script it was handling was attempting read or write into the bad area. The result... the system paused briefly while it tried to sort out the read/write error.
Makes sense... after we know it :-) There is an applet that might have helped. You know those kinds of applets that show a cpu usage graph? But there is one type of "busy" that doesn't usually show, and it is the percent of time the cpu is waiting for I/O. Typicals are "user, system, nice, idle", but IOwait is usually neglected. The gnome cpu monitor does show it, in black over black, and I always change it to some dark color that I can see: thus I know when my system becomes unresponsive but cpu is low that disk usage is high; ie, that the cpu is waiting for the disk. In your case it could have shown something. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGJJ4xtTMYHG2NR9URAoBsAJ9ThTVOMWZex+7sL3jZqXIOalXkhwCeJVur StTRvg9SyruCpRM2Dxift5I= =eWXy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org