On 2014-11-19 00:27, Philip Amadeo Saeli wrote:
Help!
Every day the last few days at precisely 17:00, my openSUSE-13.1 system begins thrashing furiously and becomes unusable for 1-2 hours or so. I've been trying to figure out what runs at that time, but the system has again become too unresponsive for me to find out. Also, since it appears to be I/O bound, it doesn't show up in the "top" display.
Leave three terminals (xterm) running, one with "top", another with "iotop -o", the last with "tailf /var/log/messages". You may have to install it. Be sure that they are both running before 5. Then, at 5, watch the display.
Yes, the system is using quite a bit of swap space presently, and I am not yet able to kill off any more processes to free up VM space (which I
Then add another xterm, sorted by the "RES" field. It will display memory hungry apps on top. If the machine is too unresponsive, you can try ssh remotely to see the terminals. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)