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From: felix@×××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird lockup problem
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:20:34
Message-Id: 20080623221938.GA10698@crowfix.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Weird lockup problem by Roy Wright
1 On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 04:52:18PM -0500, Roy Wright wrote:
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3 > This system is a ~x86 and after 3 years of running a gentoo workstation,
4 > I'm at a loss on how to trouble shoot it.
5
6 I have sometimes left a job running like this
7
8 while :; do
9 top | head >>/tmp/busylog
10 sleep 30
11 done
12
13
14 It's awful but it sometimes provides clues. The important trick is to
15 append to the log inside the loop rather than after the done, to force
16 the buffer flush each time.
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22 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
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